A small object, 2015 DJ155, roughly the size of the Statue of Liberty, is expected to pass by Earth on January 31, traveling ...
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 ...
Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...
NASA is tracking the path of a huge asteroid that will come hurtling past Earth at a staggering speed of 35,000mph later ...
A n asteroid discovered in 2024 has been placed at level 3 on the Torino impact scale, with a small chance of impact with ...
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 ...
Researchers studying 2024 PT5 have observed new data which hints that the rock originated from the Moon. They suspect that it was knocked off the lunar surface after a massive impact several thousands ...
The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...
An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be ...
In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) deleted the new asteroid from its records just hours after announcing the discovery after ...