Astronomers have reported that Earth will have two natural satellites for nearly two months, from September 29 to November 25 ...
While short mini-moon events are relatively common, longer capture episodes are rare, occurring only about once every 10 to 20 years. Stargazers will need a telescope to catch a glimpse of this ...
Some 466 million years ago, a ring comprising debris of a destroyed asteroid, would have towered over the equator. Here is ...
The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August.
With all the craziness down here on Earth in the past few weeks, you might need an update on all the stuff happening above. And we don't mean in battleground states around the Great Lakes. For example ...
An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s ...
From late September until late November this year, a “mini-moon”, called 2024 PT5 by the astrologers who spotted it ...
Comets take the name of the discoverer, whether that be a human or an automated telescopic survey that robotically inspects ...
SHAPIRO: Writing this month in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, scientists estimate the asteroid is 33 feet long - about the size of a bus. And sorry, backyard ...
Scientists have proposed a fascinating new idea: Earth may have once possessed a ring system, akin to that of Saturn. These ...