The celestial object is more than just a guest staying over for a quick visit. It's here to stay, or at least until ...

Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...

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. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

The controlled impact of NASA's DART spacecraft on 26 September 2022 brought the asteroid moon closer to Didymos, shortening the moonlet’s orbital period by 32 minutes to 11 hours 23 minutes. The Hera ...

A city-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth this October and it is set to make its closest approach on October 27. Known as 1036 Ganymed, it is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids with a ...

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 ...

While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known, scientists believe at least one may have come from the Moon. The asteroid known as Kamo`oalewa is believed to be a fragment of the ...

Carmen Electra has shared her excitement but also shock ahead of her new career. The American actress and model, 52, is known for her sultry social media posts but her new career will see a ...

The average distance from the surface of the planet to its satellite is 239,000 miles although the exact length varies at different points in the moon's orbit. When an asteroid is larger than ...