For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...
Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...
Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...
The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 1,60,000 light-years away and is between 10-20 percent as massive as the Milky ...
The asteroid was first discovered last year on August 7, 2024. To rule out 2024 PT5 being space junk, scientists at NASA’s ...
A small asteroid named 2024 PT5, once hailed as Earth's temporary second moon, might have originated from our very own Moon.
For months space enthusiasts were fascinated by a small asteroid that was pulled by Earth's gravity and was fondly referred ...
The small near-Earth object 2024 PT5 captured the world’s attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to, but never orbiting, our planet for several months.