Chinese scientists found for the first time a meteorite crater on a mountain ridge, the discovery of which enriches human's understanding of the planetary collision history and provides a new ...

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Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

More:NASA's new asteroid-hunting telescope is made to protect Earth from disaster NASA has also hosted a series of exercises to assess Earth's readiness to defend against space objects.

Still, a 36-foot-wide asteroid could cause tremendous devastation if it hurtled toward Earth. The 0.737-mile Meteor Crater in Arizona was caused by a meteorite that was 160 feet across. Fortunately, ...

The "mini-moon" asteroid originates from the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow an orbit around the sun that's very similar to Earth's orbit ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 was first observed on August 7. (Representative Image) Nicknamed as a "mini moon" or "second moon," asteroid 2024 PT5 was first seen on August 7 by a NASA ...

If you're hoping to catch a shooting star, you'll have plenty of opportunities through the end of 2024. There are still plenty of meteor showers left between now and New Year's, with at least ...

Its unusual appearance tipped off its finder, and it soon passed into the hands of a meteorite dealer in Morocco. An American collector ended up buying the stone, but pieces of it have since been ...

Over the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard somewhere that Earth was going to get a second moon. Well, we can now confirm that Earth now officially has two moons after capturing asteroid 2024 PT5.

Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a "mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday, overcome by the stronger tug of ...

Lots of things in space are big literally, but we’ve also got big things happening in space figuratively.