Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

This asteroid is a quasi-satellite of Earth, meaning it orbits the Sun but stays close to Earth. Kamoʻoalewa is roughly 131-328 feet (40-100 meters) in diameter and may be a fragment of the Moon ...

A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week ...

An asteroid orbiting near our planet that temporarily became our second moon seems to have come from the actual moon, hinting ...

In fact, it’s been smacked by Geminids before—according to a 2015 NASA study, the Moon was hit by 19 Geminids in 2006 and impacted by 21 in 2010 ... The Geminids originate from an asteroid called 3200 ...

According to the reports presented by various online sources, today, an asteroid named 2024 XS3 will make a close pass by ...