"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

The students at Croydon High School for Girls, London, spent a year designing and creating a CubeSat, a miniature satellite which records how sunlight comes through the Earth’s orbit. The project ...

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet's orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September.. An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a ...

Just a rock in the sky. While the asteroid will be entering Earth's orbit, it is not yet a guarantee that 2024 PT5 will even qualify as a moon. "It certainly won't complete one full revolution in ...

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 ...

Beginning Sunday, Earth's skies will soon have a temporary visitor. On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost ...

Due to its orbit being closely matched to our own, calculations indicate the asteroid will orbit Earth again in January 2025 and then in 2055. Mini-moons aren't just curiosities for asteroid-watchers.

An asteroid that was discovered riding along in Earth's orbit is about three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) wide and might remain as a hitchhiker with our planet for at least 4,000 more years while ...

Known as "2020 XL 5," the asteroid will be trapped in Earth's orbit for at least 4,000 years according to simulations detailed in a new paper published earlier this month in Nature Communications.

Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of less than 0.02, which means that it is very close to being circular. That is why the difference between the Earth's distance from the Sun at perihelion and ...

The project named ‘Mission Pegasus’ saw completion of the final stage of Phase II on 1 July. This involved the pupil-led Astrogazers club conducting live flight ...