The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

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

Earth gained a hidden second moon over the weekend, although it is set to disappear in several weeks. Nearing the end of ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

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

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...

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