Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

Why hadn't we noticed it sooner? - NASA and all of humanity failed to locate this asteroid. They are small in size and the ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

The small near-Earth object 2024 PT5 captured the world’s attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to, but never orbiting, our planet for several months.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Experts say it could be visible from Monday night. Dusty samples had been scooped up from surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020.

Follow-up observations from the Gemini-North telescope on Hawaii Island and the Very Large Telescope in Chile returned ...

Astronaut Don Pettit took this stunning photo of a nearby comet from the International Space Station ...