NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid currently zooming past Earth at an incredible 22,638 miles per hour. The rock, ...

Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

A whole population of 'minimoons' - tiny natural satellites - may be quietly circling near Earth, scientists now believe, ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...