A "harmless" asteroid burned up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky ...

pass between the Earth and Moon several times a month. How many near-Earth asteroids have been discovered? NASA estimates ...

Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...

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or 19.5 times the distance to the moon. Its Asteroid Watch dashboard displays the date of the next five closest approaches, as well as each object's approximate diameter and its distance from Earth.

The so-called 'mini moon' is actually an asteroid that's about the size of a school busCredit: University of Virginia / John DiJulio, University Communications It was first spotted on August 7 by ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Earth's "second moon" won't be sticking around for Thanksgiving, but just as many of us will on Thursday (Nov. 28), it seems the asteroid was paying a visit ...

Earth is about to lose its tiny bonus moon. 2024 PT5, a 33-foot-wide asteroid that hung around Earth for two months, is expected to carry on with its journey through the cosmos this week.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday ...

The burn set the spacecraft on course to rendezvous with Mars in March 2025. The Hera asteroid probe has passed a critical milestone on its journey to study the site of the first asteroid ...