"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a ... astronomers," Marcos told Space.com. "A telescope with a diameter of at least 30 inches plus a CCD or CMOS detector is needed ...

A 200-foot (58 meters) wide asteroid is set to fly much closer to ... On the European Space Agency’s “risk list” of near-Earth objects with a higher than zero chance of impacting Earth ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

This supermoon coincides with a partial lunar eclipse In order ... There was the mini-moon of the 2022 NX1 asteroid, which ...

Scientists first caught sight of the mini-moon while observing an asteroid named Polymele, near the outskirts of the solar system. NASA says that the asteroid is around 17 miles along its widest axis.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus ... 5 and a 12-inch telescope can see objects with a magnitude of around 16 or 17.

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

The license covers the Odin mission, which will launch in early 2025 on board the next Intuitive Machines moon launch.

The moon will soon have a companion in Earth's orbit for a limited time. An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months starting Sept. 29, according to a study published in ...

Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...