Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

See the crescent moon shine with Mars at sunset on Sept. 24. The crescent moon shines close to Mars above the western horizon ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It was found in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, which can be seen in ...

The region where the gravitational influence of Earth is the dominant force, is called the Hill Sphere. This extends up to 1.5 million kilometers (almost a million miles) away. If a small asteroid ...

Billions of years ago a planet called Theia collided with Earth in a massive impact. This film explores how the crash shaped ...