Earth has welcomed a new temporary mini-moon, asteroid 2025 PN7, a 62-foot object now orbiting our planet for decades. This ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

The comet, called 3I/ATLAS, is the third known interstellar object that has come through our solar system. As it flies deeper ...

As Earth’s skies grow more closely monitored than ever, the ability to track fast-moving space objects has become a key part ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

Scientists out of the Pan-STARRs observatory in Hawaii discovered the new quasi-moon on Aug. 29, according to CNN and ABC ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

An autumn meteor shower yearly responsible for “Halloween fireballs” may pose a small impact threat to Earth. What is the ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...