A newly discovered asteroid, also referred to as a mini-moon or second moon, is set to enter Earth's orbit temporarily this fall.

A recently-discovered asteroid will soon become a mini-moon of Earth, and it will hang around until Thanksgiving.

The first day of fall arrives on Sunday with the autumn equinox, starting shorter, colder days because of Earth's axis and ...

The results, which the researchers call PhanDA, estimate global temperatures over the last 485 million years, going back to ...

But all good things must come to an end, and summer cannot last forever. There’s both a simple reason and a more complicated one. The simple reason is that it can’t always be summer because the Earth ...

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

Say hello to 2024 PT5, Earth’s newest mini-moon. Expected to go into orbit of Earth for a couple of months from Sept. 29, ...

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

Earth will soon have a visitor — and not of the extraterrestrial kind. Astronomers found a small asteroid that will orbit our ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

In September 2023, a bizarre wave of concentrated seismic upheaval reverberated across the planet for nine days. The quake ...