The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving around Earth in a horseshoe shape from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25.

From the water that covers most of it to the moon that orbits it, here are some bizarre things about our home planet that science still doesn't completely understand.

Group Captain and Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will return to Earth on July 14, said US space agency NASA on Thursday, ...

Walt Disney opened the first Disneyland in California’s Anaheim on 1955. The park tried to bridge the gap between typical ...

When the mega-musical event Live Earth kicks off Saturday, online spectators can alternate between the live crooning of Keith Urban outside New York or the ballads of James Blunt in London with a ...

The use of REEs in magnets is one of their most significant applications. The magnet basically changes electricity into motion. More motion is possible with stronger magnets. Therefore, a small, ...

I saw a program that showed the Moon revolving around Earth, causing the oceans to swell on both sides of the planet. Shouldn’t the ocean opposite the Moon be shallower than the side facing it?

New insights into planetary motion reveal that Earth is not technically orbiting the Sun. Instead, both the Sun and Earth revolve around a shared centre of mass called the barycentre.

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

Coming back to your question, the universe doesn’t change its behavior whether we think the sun revolves around the earth or vice versa. But one thing that would happen to you is that, if you ...