YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

In science-fiction stories, companies often mine the moon or asteroids. While this may seem far-fetched, this idea is edging ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

A new image released by China's space agency offers the first glimpse at the Tianwen 2 spacecraft, which is en route to collect samples from one of Earth's "quasi-moons". The photo shows some ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This discovery has led scientists to believe there are many ...

Before concluding that 2024 PT5 was a fragment of the Moon, scientists needed to rule out the possibility that it was simply space debris, such as an old rocket part or a piece of human-made material.

An artist’s concept of an asteroid like the small near-Earth object 2024 PT5, whose orbit around the sun closely matches that of our planet and led to it being called a “mini-moon.” NASA/JPL ...

That means the approach in 2055 may be just a little too wide for 2024 PT5 to be snared by Earth as a mini-moon. "As for the future, it is virtually certain that it will return in 2055.

If this is true, the leading moon origin theory would indicate that 2024 PT5 actually came from Earth originally: The giant-impact theory suggests that our moon formed from the debris following a ...