Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...
Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month.
Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...
When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...
The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.
The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...
Scientists have proposed a fascinating new idea: Earth may have once possessed a ring system, akin to that of Saturn. These ...
A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.
A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's surface temperature has changed in the past 485 million years ...
From Grace Earth may have had its own ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, lasting for tens of millions of ...
Astronomers have defined mini-moons as asteroids or comets that are gravitationally captured by a planet for a temporary amount of time. Small mini-moons are very common, but ones big enough to spot ...
See how our seasons come from Earth's tilt and yearly loop around the sun, which changes the ice cover, vegetation, and ...