A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.
A German tourist has been killed by a shark during a catamaran trip 500 kilometers off the Canary Islands. The 30-year-old ...
Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...
Elon Musk has issued a warning for the public after a giant asteroid made a close approach to our planet. Reacting to ...
NASA is closely observing an asteroid named 2024 ON, which measures about 1,150 feet by 590 feet and travels at approximately ...
The latest asteroid comes a year after NASA said another asteroid — this one the size of the Empire State Building — could ...
Space agencies in the United States and Europe have confirmed that an asteroid the size of a stadium was set to pass Earth on ...
A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.