NASA scientists have calculated that Earth will capture a "second moon" on Sunday (Sept. 29). The "mini-moon" comes in the ...
A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep ...
Lofty goals. Also, unsurprisingly, not cheap. According to NASA, the VIPER project has cost $433m so far, well above its ...
Earth is going to have its very own mini-moon from September 29 until November 25. The regular moon's new, temporary friend ...
Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny ...
The futuristic new LUNA facility has attracted gushing praise from Europe's spacetech startups. Can the site boost the ...
Unlike the existing moon — which has orbited our planet for about 4 billion years — this new floating rock is only expected ...
Earth is about to flirt with a new natural satellite – but you will probably struggle to see it. Our relationship with THE ...
A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.
Eastern Time, Canadians under clear skies will be able to watch a thin sliver of the moon as it heads toward the western ...
Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. But this one won’t be making an impact. Instead, it’ll be what space enthusiasts have dubbed a mini-moon, and it will stick ...
Jedicke was not involved in the new study. Asteroid 2024 PT5 came from ... “We think that there is about one dishwasher-size minimoon in the Earth-Moon system at any time, but they are so ...