Humans are not the most rational beings when it comes to fear, especially about things that are interesting and dramatic in ...

The asteroid 2024 PT5 will leave Earth on Nov. 25 before Thanksgiving after visiting as a second moon, but new analysis shows it may have been born from our original moon and thus from Earth.

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet's orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

NASA has succeeded in bringing back to Earth a capsule containing samples gathered from an asteroid -- a first for the space agency. The sample return capsule (SRC) from the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Previous studies have unearthed chemical signatures in the K-Pg boundary that also implicated a carbonaceous asteroid in the death of the non-avian dinosaurs and about two thirds of all other ...