Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth ... lunar rock samples,” Kareta said. “It looks like it hasn’t been in space for very long ...

PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the ... announcing the findings. “It looks like it hasn’t been in space ...

This does not leave much of a time span and ... which also appears to be a fragment of the Moon with an Earth-like orbit. However, until now, no objects had been definitively confirmed as lunar ...

This evidence, they write in a new paper, seems to point toward the mini-moon originating ... create more programs like NASA’s D.A.R.T., which redirected an asteroid’s path when it collided ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...