A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it ...

Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're ...

The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...

Despite people wading foot-deep through floodwaters, the rising levels were still within minor flood stage at the harbor, ...

Humanity has been able to predict solar eclipses for more than 2,000 years, but even in modern times, eclipse maps have been ...

Starting next week an asteroid about the size of a school bus will be temporarily caught by the Earth’s gravity. It’s called ...

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

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

Earth’s gravity has disrupted an asteroid named 2024 P-T-5. The space rock and the Earth are now in a fleeting gravitational dance. This news story is funded in large part by Connecticut Public’s ...

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.