It turns out the mysterious force is a previously undiscovered global electric field. First came the surprising discovery ...

Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...

This week see many special celestial sights, from a bright comet and a solar eclipse to a bright Venus and the possibility of ...

From these indirect observations, scientists have calculated that the scorchingly hot inner core, with temperatures ...

Earth will capture a miniature, "second moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny ...

The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on ...

A new “health check” for our planet sounds an alarm bell on rising ocean acidification, which is driven by carbon dioxide ...

Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

In the moments before a gunman leaned on a car to steady his aim at Kevin Mahoney during a 2021 mass shooting at a Colorado ...

Earth will get a "new moon" this weekend when, on Sunday (Sept. 29), it captures the asteroid 2024 PT5, claiming it as a very ...