The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August.

The three-quarter moon rose over Europe last week as serene and remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned ...

The Harvest Moon, which has inspired no shortage of cultural touchstones – from a Nintendo game to Neil Young’s Billboard hit – occurs annually around the start of fall at a time when Earth ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

Brad Pitt's attempt to reap Gravity's fortunes stalled at the box office. 5 years later, it still stands as one of the best ...

The moon travels around the Earth in an oval-shaped orbit, called an ellipse. When a full moon hits when the moon is the closest to the Earth in its orbit, it's called a supermoon. A supermoon can ...

An asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months. For the next two months, an unusual ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

The moon travels around the Earth in an oval-shaped orbit, called an ellipse. When a full moon hits when the moon is the closest to the Earth in its orbit, it's called a supermoon. A supermoon can ...

An asteroid is approaching the Earth which the experts say will come close enough to be caught in our planet’s gravity well, ...