A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...
In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...
Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...
The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...
Elena Zavet, who resides in Florida, claims that during a holiday in the Turks and Caicos Islands, she discovered fragments ...
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.