The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...
When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...
The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away. Hera's images of the Earth (visible ...
Astrologer Alexandria Lettman reveals what the stars have in store for every zodiac sign's horoscope on Wednesday, November ...
17 harvest moon and the Aug. 19 sturgeon moon. A meteor shower is celestial event that happens when Earth passes through the ...
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...
Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera probe recently completed a key manoeuvre which has set it on a path to Mars. The spacecraft will reach the red planet in March 2025 for the first gravity assist.