A small asteroid will be captured by the planet’s gravitational field, becoming a temporary "mini-moon" from 29 September ...

The space rock was first spotted in August by astronomers in Madrid using a powerful telescope located in South Africa.

The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet. When it whizzes by Earth on Sunday, it will ...

Earth is about to have a temporary visitor a "mini moon", though much smaller than its regular one. This mini moon is ...

Although visible to professional telescopes, the asteroid will be too dim for typical amateur telescopes or binoculars. Professional astronomers, however, will have a chance to observe the event using ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, has long intrigued scientists. Since its discovery in 1801 by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, experts have debated what this giant, crater-covered object ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters) ...

It's being called the "comet of the century" and won't be back for 80,000 years.

WASHINGTON — Earth’s moon will soon have some company — a “mini moon.” The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size ...

The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus that will be temporarily trapped by our planet's gravity ...

A mini-moon is a “temporarily captured orbiter” if it completes at least one full orbit of the Earth before returning to its ...