Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

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

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

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 ...

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary ...

The asteroid, named by the space agency as "2024 ON," is 621,000 miles from Earth Getty Planet Earth and big asteroid in the ...

A skyscraper-sized asteroid is set to narrowly miss Earth next week, Nasa has warned. The space rock, dubbed 2024 ON, has ...

There’s also a chance that Apophis could collide with another small asteroid between now and 2029. There are 1.2 million known asteroids in the galaxy, but there are others too small to track, any of ...

ON has a diameter anywhere between 721 and 1,575 feet (220 to 480 metres) - meaning it could be nearly as big as the One ...