“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on top of a bluff, and the reason that bluff is there, it's part of the ...

“It was nearly orbiting us for about two months ... or objects like 2024 PT5 on heliocentric orbits similar to Earth’s, could be chips off the moon is perfectly reasonable,” Jedicke said ...

Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons, obscured the Sun's ... On Sunday, 29th September, Earth captured a new "minimoon" known as 2024 PT5. The bus-sized asteroid, measuring 33 feet wide, is ...

Earth is not in danger of being hit by an asteroid in the near future, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The proclamations from the two agencies came after an asteroid dubbed 2024 ...

UPDATE Feb. 24, 2025: With new observations over the weekend, the odds of 2024 YR4 hitting ... from the past two nights had reduced the chance of an impact with Earth to 0.28 percent.

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...