A team of planetary scientists has revealed evidence of a massive asteroid impact on the moon that occurred around 3.5 billion years ago, offering a rare glimpse into the violent early history of the ...

The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the ...

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon millions of years ago after a violent impact. Chinas ...

Their observations, taken on February 18 and 26, improved the certainty of the asteroid’s future position. Rather than colliding with the moon, YR4 will pass it from a relatively close distance of ...

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as "co-orbitals," these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth. Basically, they take the exact same amount of time to orbit the sun ...

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is about to arrive at Kamoʻoalewa, Earth’s mysterious “mini-moon,” to collect samples that may ...