Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
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NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon
The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...
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Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon
2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...
Alert! NASA Warns Of Giant 160-Ft Airplane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Tomorrow: Check Time, Speed And Distance
NASA warns about asteroid 2025 BK, a giant 160-ft space rock speeding towards Earth at 37,583 kilometres per hour.
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It’s Not Sci-Fi: Americans Support Asteroid Defense Spending
In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...
How a little prince can inspire 8 billion gardeners to clean up the Earth
As our planet gets less habitable, the idea has popped up of moving to Mars while we give it a good scrub. ‘The Little Prince ...
Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
Doorbell cam catches a meteorite fall. How often does it happen, and could one hit you?
One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big bruise.
Asteroid or Tesla? The Cosmic Mix-Up
It looked like an asteroid, but it was a Tesla: the space mix-up involving the celestial object 2018 CN41 was resolved in a few hours. Initially cataloged as a new asteroid, it was later ...