Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...
The Earth has got itself a new moon. The new satellite is temporary: it will leave again at the end of November. And it is ...
Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...
Meet asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth’s latest mini-moon. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at ...
NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps, the agency recently announced — and the shadow ...
We are in a new and different kind of moon race, one the U.S. is losing. To win, says a former NASA official, we need new ...
On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...