The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months. For the next two months, an ...

A Nasa spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest. The sample capsule ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

A small asteroid may become a "mini-moon" of Earth's for a couple of months, according to some astronomers. But what makes ...

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...

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

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid ...

When we think of planets with rings, Saturn often comes to mind. However, new research suggests that Earth might have had its ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician period – the second of six periods in the ...

Evidence suggests Earth had a ring system 466 million years ago, causing a surge in meteorite impacts and possibly ...