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 ...

An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months starting Sept. 29, according to a study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...