Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...
The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August.
The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...
New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...
An asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months. For the next two months, an unusual ...
An asteroid is approaching the Earth which the experts say will come close enough to be caught in our planet’s gravity well, ...
When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...
It's not going to hit us, but it is going to hang out ... But ATLAS reports this upcoming mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply defined as a small, rocky object that orbits ...
Related: Collisions could increase chance of 'God of Destruction' asteroid Apophis hitting Earth Mini-moon events come in two flavors. The first are long episodes during which the asteroid ...
The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...
New research has suggested that if other much smaller space rocks hit Apophis, the asteroid, which is almost as wide as the Empire State Building is tall, could be redirected, and Earth might not ...