WASHINGTON — Earth’s moon will soon have some company — a “mini moon.” The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size ...

The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus that will be temporarily trapped by our planet's gravity ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

Stellaris has new content on the way that will span across multiple content packs, as the Grand Arcive arrives in late ...

This means you will not be able to see this mini-moon with the naked eye. You likely won't be able to see it with a telescope ...

And the M-Argo satellite, with a launch planned for 2025, will study the shape, mass and surface minerals of a ...

A mini-moon is a “temporarily captured orbiter” if it completes at least one full orbit of the Earth before returning to its ...

Scientists simulated the impact of a nuclear device detonated near an asteroid, successfully showing that such a blast could ...

Scientists at Purdue University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) suggest Ceres is very icy and might have once been a ...

Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...

Once in a mini-moon. You won't be able to see the 2024 PT5 asteroid when it hitches a ride in the moon's orbit of Earth starting today — not with your average backyard telescope — but that doesn't ...