A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

The earth is getting a second "mini-moon" later this month, researchers confirmed; Asteroid 2024 PT5 will stick around from ...

The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

Evidence suggests Earth had a ring system 466 million years ago, causing a surge in meteorite impacts and possibly ...

High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

PT5 is a 10-meter (33-feet) wide space rock that is expected to come as close as 1 million kilometers of Earth in an orbital ...

The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

Earth about to get a temporary ‘mini moon’ this month, scientists say - Space rock to orbit Earth for brief period between ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

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