Daksh Malik, a ninth grader from Shiv Nadar School in Noida, has earned the prestigious recognition of making a 'provisional asteroid discovery' by NASA. This accolade allows him the unique ...
NASA is currently monitoring asteroid 2024 PT5, which is passing by Earth this month at a safe distance. Discovered in August 2024, the 33-foot-wide object has followed a path similar to Earth’s, ...
NASA/JPL-Caltech For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity ...
"This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists." Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new ...