Earth is about to gain a new "mini-moon," but it won't stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, ...

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

"We found an overdensity of planets in this region, indicating a sharp transition between the barren Neptunian Desert and the more populated Neptunian Savanna." ...

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, ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe has spotted a habitable planet roughly one astronomical ...

O'Donoghue pays a visit to NCPR's morning news show, Northern Light, to guide us through what to look for in the morning and ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

It's time for one of the biggest battles our Solar System has ever seen. In this corner, a gas giant and heavyweight, Jupiter. And in this corner, an infinitely small but truly terrifying black hole.

At a distance of 2.7 billion miles (4.3 billion km) from Earth, the ice giant is a mere magnitude 7.7 ... now passing 6° ...

Yep, Earth will temporarily get a second moon. It’s called 2024 PT5 and it’s been called a “mini moon” by astronomers. 2024 ...