A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this ...

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing ...

Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundation's Blanco 4-meter telescope. That telescope searches ...

The mini-moon/asteroid will only be joining Earth's orbit temporarily before it returns to its other orbital path.

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 PN7, a tiny 'quasi-moon' that has been shadowing Earth in near-synchronised orbit ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Astronomers have identified 2025 SC79, a new asteroid with a remarkably fast 128-day orbit, placing it among the ...

Scientists spotted a piece of rock following planet Earth earlier this year, but older photos show it's actually been ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...