The museum’s programme of events for next year also includes exhibitions on swimming and style and 1980s nightclub Blitz.

It is expected to follow a horseshoe-type orbit to become a “mini-moon” of Earth on 29 September only to return to a path orbiting the Sun about 57 days later on 25 November, according to the study.

Asteroids from the Earth pass by all the time but we are expecting a friendly visitor staying around for the next couple months.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

An inter-planetary object is heading towards our planet and astronomers predict it might hang around for some time.

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily orbit Earth as a “mini-moon” for nearly two months starting ...

NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared a terrifying prediction about when an asteroid could possibly hit Earth.

Earth will welcome a temporary mini-moon named 2024 PT5, which will orbit our planet from late September to late November ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

A 'mini moon' will keep Earth’s closest celestial body company from next week. Here's how long it will be sticking ...