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

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", ...

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

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

Elkins-Tanton, who works at Arizona State University as foundation professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, ...

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

Getty Illustration of a spaceship orbiting a planet (stock image) Related: Chance of a Recently-Discovered Asteroid Hitting ...

Vesta won't reach opposition with Earth again until Oct. 13, 2026. On Friday, May 2 the asteroid Vesta will reach opposition, marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid orbiting ...

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

New research suggests there may be a hidden population of minimoons lurking near Earth, with fragments of the Moon traveling ...