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 ...

Identified by astronomers in August 2024 near Earth, a small space rock is likely a fragment of the moon that broke off ...

This small asteroid, part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, will only remain in Earth’s orbit until November 25, 2024, before continuing its journey around the sun. Though not visible to the average ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1 per cent chance of ...

De la Fuente Marcos’ paper in September suggested that the object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun similar to Earth’s orbit.