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

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, they hit, leaving a bright streak in our planet ... “It certainly won’t complete one full revolution in the Earth-moon system this fall, so I’m not sure I would classify it ...

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, ...

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 ...

But then, as Zappa details in her memoir, as the years wore on, she experienced a series of painful betrayals orchestrated by ...