Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...
A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.
Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...
The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...
You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...
The Earth is getting a second 'mini-moon' later this month, but it'll only last from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, researchers say.
On August 7, 2024, NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected a space object that, for a little ...
The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months. For the next two months, an ...
It won't be there forever, but Earth will have a second moon when a small asteroid begins to orbit the planet later this ...
The final asteroid, 2024 RD15, is about 51 feet wide. It will pass Earth at 4,450,000 miles away. While distant, the data ...