In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

Hasn't NASA already proven, on a real asteroid millions of miles ... a small rocket plume on one side of the mock asteroid, ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

Astronomers recently discovered an asteroid hurdling towards Earth. Sadly, it was just Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster. Starman's ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

Typically, asteroids - like the one depicted in this artist's concept - originate from the main asteroid belt between the ...

It appears to be composed of rock broken off from the moon's surface and ejected into space after a large impact. "We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the moon, but the ...

BJ's closest approach to Earth will be about 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) way. The space rock is ~68 feet (21 meters) ...

PT5, initially believed to be a tiny asteroid, likely originated from the Moon. Discovered in 2024, PT5's reflectance and ...