Until now, the inner Solar System looked like a mostly charted neighborhood. Astronomers tracked thousands of near‑Earth ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

Earth is to get a new moon as an asteroid heading towards us will be trapped in orbit. From September 29 ... Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet ...

as a small asteroid piece will be incorporated into the planet's orbit before heading back into outer space. Experts often monitor objects flying near Earth for potential threats; but they are ...

The "asteroid" has an eccentric orbit, which qualified it as a Near-Earth Object (NEO), taking it within the Moon's orbit at a distance less than 240,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) from Earth.

Even after it leaves orbit, it will stay near Earth for a few months, making its closest approach on Jan. 9, 2025. Soon after, it will leave Earth's neighborhood until its path puts it back into ...

After its close approach to the Earth, 2024 PT5 is slowly receding away in its new, more distant orbit. But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

The space rock will make one complete orbit of our planet between Sept. 29 and Nov. 25 before escaping Earth's gravity. Yet despite this 57-day close flyby of our planet, the asteroid will be hard ...

She added that observations of 2024 PT5 will bolster scientists’ knowledge of the sort of space rocks that flit about close to Earth ... an asteroid must orbit Earth fully at least once ...