Brian Hackney reports on the possible origins of Earth's recent "mini-moon" that is preparing to depart our orbit.

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...

The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

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 ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet.

Deep beneath Greenland's ice, NASA radar happened upon Camp Century, a long-lost Cold War base now buried under 100 feet of ...

Psyche was discovered by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis on March 17, 1852. He named the asteroid after Psyche, the ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a once every 5,000 to 10,000 ...

This enhances asteroid orbit prediction and planetary defence systems like Nasa's DART. This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. The phenomenon of gravitational ...