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As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...