A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

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You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

Twilight of the Gods is the latest Netflix animated series that hopes not to get purged after its first season by the ...

Visitors to Rocky Mountain National Park ask many questions about the new things they see. What are those fences? When do the elk come to the meadows? What are the wood poles along the side of the ...

But that’s what happened one memorable year when our now-grown daughters were small. The younger one fell in love with a little dwarf hamster at the pet store. It rested lightly in her cupped hand, ...

R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...

Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You're an accomplished sailor of the small ...

The article explores human arrival on Cyprus around 14,000 years ago and examines how early human settlers may have ...