A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its ...

About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the ...

In a new report in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, scientists announced that 2024 PT5 is just 33 ...

NASA is closely observing an asteroid named 2024 ON, which measures about 1,150 feet by 590 feet and travels at approximately ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

Meteorites can vary greatly in size. While some are tiny, resembling grains of sand, others can weigh several tons. The ...

For one camper, a quick browse on Google Maps led to the discovery of what appears to be a meteor crater. Researchers are ...

A recent study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals evidence that Earth may have had a ring ...

A camper scrolling through Google Maps has stumbled upon what could be a crater caused by a giant asteroid impact in Canada. Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a spherical pit of about ...

It makes sense that something would have eaten the prey we already knew lived there, but we still don’t know what they did in ...