2024 PT5, Earth’s newest mini-moon, is expected to go into orbit of Earth for a couple of months from Sept. 29, 2024. Update, Oct. 9, 2024: A link to a map of asteroid 2024 PT5’s orbit around the sun ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

NASA calls it *** cosmic touch and go. When we made contact with the surface, there was *** one second delay and then we fired that high pressure nitrogen gas and the surface just exploded in October ...

A temporary “mini-moon” orbiting the Earth for the last two months drifted away on Tuesday, resuming its journey around the Sun. The 10m-wide asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 had been circling the Earth since ...

The Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth at a rate you could measure with a ruler if you waited […] ...

On Earth, it’s generally pretty easy to find the exact date and time regardless of where you happen to be located. Everything is neatly divided up by calendars and time zones and kept in careful ...

Earth has a new celestial companion, a small asteroid named 2025 PN7, recently confirmed to be our planet's latest quasi-moon, or quasi-satellite. According to a new research paper, "Meet Arjuna 2025 ...

It's also not the first time this has happened... It's also not the first time this has happened... It's also not the first time this has happened... Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it ...