No, it’s obviously the Earth’s famous second moon. Asteroids generally do one of three things when they get a but too close ...
Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...
2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 36 ft in diameter discovered on 7 August 2024, when it was 353,200 miles from Earth.
A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...
Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...
But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our skies until Nov. 25 before returning to the solar system.
2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 36 ft in diameter discovered on 7 August 2024, when it was 353,200 miles from Earth.
When the world woke up on Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth had an extra moon. 2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a space ...
A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...