which confirms it's a space rock. Analysis of 2024 PT5's orbit showed it wasn't an errant piece of space junk. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses ...
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 ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2024 YY5. The space rock will make a safe approach to Earth soon. Scientists have assured it poses no danger to the planet. How close will ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
The roadster was expected to go into elliptical orbit around the sun, going a little beyond Mars and back toward Earth, but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid ...
Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously ... officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through ...
An asteroid the size of a school bus is set to zoom by the Earth on Tuesday, traveling several times faster than a speeding bullet. The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...
Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit that brought it close, but it never actually entered ...