A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.
Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...
Sadly, at just about 10 meters, the mini-moon will be extremely hard to see from Earth, but its presence will be there ...
From September 29 until November 25, astronomers have calculated that 2024 PT5— what scientists think is an asteroid but have ...
"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...
Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...
The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...
A stadium-sized asteroid named 2024 ON is expected to pass by Earth at high speed on September 17, 2024, as per a warning ...
Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...
Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...
The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.