Earth's "second moon" won't be sticking around for Thanksgiving, but just as many of us will on Thursday (Nov. 28), it seems ...
It's an Earth sandwich! What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt. How long would it be before one of these belts sent their ...
For the last few months, Earth has had a second “mini-moon.”The moon is actually a small asteroid that Earth’s gravity grabbed onto. It is called 2024-PT5 and is about 33 feet wide, which is about the ...
Earth's gravity briefly captured asteroid 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. This rare event, lasting from September to November 2024, a ...
Earth will soon lose its mini-moon that will fly away into space after completing its trip to our planet. Asteroid 2024 PT5 ...
The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...
Originating from the Arjuna asteroid belt, a collection of space rocks sharing similar orbits with Earth, 2024 PT5 was ...
NASA plans to probe a unique asteroid 2.2 billion miles away in order to learn more about the cores of planets, but it could ...
A BUS-SIZED “mini moon” is in the final days of its trip to Earth’s skies – and will soon vanish until 2055. The holidaying ...
The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...
Unlike Earth's moon, which orbits every 27.3 days, 2024 PT5 won't complete a full orbit, behaving more like a "window shopper ...