The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't ...

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft on Monday (Oct. 7) toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation, ...

The European Space Agency, NASA and SpaceX are sending a spacecraft to conduct further tests on an asteroid that was successfully nudged by a NASA spacecraft that intentionally crashed into it in 2022 ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...

A nuclear bomb could save Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact ... Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like tech ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply ...

Astronomers in Arizona spotted a different visiting mini-moon — a tiny asteroid named 2020 CD3 — in Earth’s orbit in February 2020. It was estimated to measure 6 to 11 feet across ...

Asteroid 2020 GE and 2024 RO11 will pass Earth Asteroid 2020 GE, the smaller object, is around 26 feet in diameter, about the size of a bus. It will pass Earth at a distance of 410,000 miles ...

Earth has previously captured other temporary mini-moons, such as Asteroid 2020 CD3. Although that asteroid was first spotted whirling around Earth in February 2020 and departed a couple of months ...