Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

A new mini-moon the size of a city bus will begin circling our planet and hanging out in our skies until Thanksgiving week. An asteroid named 2024 PT5 will enter Earth's orbit, get caught there ...

discovering a binary system—a smaller asteroid, called a moonlet, orbited it from a distance of about two miles. Such precise moon-hunting is a huge leap from when 1991 VG, the first mini-moon ...

An Aug. 19 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) appears to show footage of an object streaking across the sky and colliding with the moon, sending out a visible shockwave. “Moon hit by ...

On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost two months before the forces of gravity return it to a vast field of ...

Two other asteroids are also expected ... A bus-sized asteroid is due to pass the Earth today, coming closer than the moon. Stock image of an asteroid passing the Earth (main) and a school bus ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

NASA has raised the odds that a massive asteroid, about the size of a 10-storey building, could collide with Earth's Moon.

These events happen two different ... the 'mini-moon' asteroid take? The asteroid will be in orbit for 56 days and will take a horseshoe path around Earth. Take a look at the USA TODAY graphic ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...