Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

Some of the most dramatic climate events in history are the Snowball Earth episodes, which occurred hundreds of millions of ...

Introduction Organized by the Science Mission Directorate’s Science Support Office (SSO), NASA hosted its 12th annual Earth ...

The Earth has pulled in moons of this type before but none have ever stuck around as long as the moon we know.

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

This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...

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

Yep, Earth will temporarily get a second moon. It’s called 2024 PT5 and it’s been called a “mini moon” by astronomers. 2024 ...

"You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers!" ...

Researchers believe a ring system around Earth could have contributed to the global cooling event known as the Hirnantian ...

Mini-moons’ are asteroids that fail to escape Earth’s gravity and end up orbiting the planet for a time. The 33-foot asteroid ...

A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...