The ‘city killer’ asteroid (possibly) heading our way might spare us and slam into the Moon instead, scientists said. The space rock known as 2024 YR4 has a 2.1% chance of hitting Earth based ...

The moon is hot right now. By some estimates, as many as 100 lunar missions could launch into space over the next decade — a level of interest in the moon that far surpasses the Cold War-era ...

Marcos explained that in order to become a mini-moon, an incoming body has to approach Earth at a close range of around 2.8 million miles (4.5 million km) and slowly at about 2,200 mph (3,540 km/h).

Although an asteroid with the potential to cause significant damage if it hit a populated area is ... pass harmlessly between the orbits of Earth and the moon. NOTE: The video in the media player ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month. brutto film - stock.adobe.com Our blue moon will no longer be standing ...

A scenario has been identified that explains how the near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa could have been knocked off the Moon and become what is ... for an object to hit the Moon with such force ...

The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed 2024 PT5, will become a mini-moon from 29 September until 25 November, astronomers said in a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the AAS. Earth tends ...

The Harvest Moon, which has inspired no shortage of cultural touchstones – from a Nintendo game to Neil Young’s Billboard hit ... celestial body as it's also eclipsed by Earth's shadow.

One of the most intriguing bits about the space junk about to hit the moon, though ... blow when a booster came falling back to the Earth and crashed near a school. In this instance, though ...

Join us for our Moon Week special report in the countdown to Artemis 1. Some 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-size celestial body named Theia slammed into a young, molten Earth, nearly decimating the ...

To become a second ... can be declared a moon ultimately comes down to if it starts orbiting another body. Our moon, for example, follows an elliptical orbit around the Earth that takes about ...