The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

NASA is tracking two bus-sized asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that are whizzing through space at some 11,000 to ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

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

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

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

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

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...

Earth has only one natural satellite, the moon, which is relatively large compared to its parent planet. It orbits Earth at ...

until a large asteroid crashed into the Earth so hard that the Moon broke away and shot into space. There, it began orbiting the Earth as it does now. Still under construction Most big asteroids ...

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