"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

For the past couple of weeks ... It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called Apophis ... kilometers), about one-twelfth the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

When it makes its nearest pass, the 1,100-foot-wide (335-meter-wide) asteroid will be within 24,000 miles (38,625 kilometers) of our planet’s surface—roughly ten times closer than the Moon ...

Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...

This asteroid is due to zoom past the Earth on October 28, passing us at a distance of about 148,000 miles, which is closer to our planet than the moon. This may sound like an immense distance ...

ATLAS, an asteroid impact early warning system in Hawaii, recently spotted a small asteroid that will temporarily orbit Earth during October and November, essentially becoming a mini moon.

The first one arrives in Scorpio on Friday, November 1, and affects your self-care-oriented 6th House. It's a day for ...

Among those samples were "regolith breccias," which form when moon dust—or regolith—is fused into rock by asteroid impacts. Once fused into a rock, these breccias preserve the geochemical ...