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

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...

New research suggests that small asteroid collisions could potentially alter Apophis’s trajectory, raising concerns about future risks.

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

Astronomers have seen the largest jets ever found erupting from a black hole. The giant jet system Porphyrion is 23 million ...

Asteroid Apophis was initially discovered in 2004 and immediately became a talking point as potentially hazardous asteroids, ...

On Friday, 13, 2029, Earth will witness a notable celestial event as the asteroid Apophis approaches within 19,000 miles ...

This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about 466 million years ago, at the beginning of a period when Earth was regularly hit by meteorites ... to have been caused by the breakup of a ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

Have you heard about Asteroid Apophis? It's like the rockstar of space—cool name, big impact! This bad boy has been causing a ...

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...