Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...

A small asteroid, 2024 UQ, entered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated last month. The asteroid was detected only two hours ...

Nasa's Near-Earth Object Studies Center has been closely observing Asteroid Apophis for nearly two decades. Scientists ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

Although the Moon is the closest neighbour to our planet, scientists have still not been able to determine its origin. Since ...

Despite being our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon's origin has remained a mystery to scientists. Since the 1980s, the ...

In this scenario, debris from the collision, including material from both Earth and Theia, was ejected into Earth’s orbit.

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.