The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

New proposed space missions, led by the University of Leicester, will study stellar impacts on planets and Earth’s ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...

For 57 days, our planet will have two moons as the 2024 PT5 asteroid gets caught in Earth’s gravity and whirled around in our ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, 1 meter in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would ...

"It's the first time an image of the two celestial bodies have been captured together from the surface of Mars." ...