Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

An Arjuna asteroid, discovered in August, will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25.

Earth will gain a temporary companion in the form of a small asteroid called 2024 PT5. This space rock, around 10 metres wide ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

While many people associate asteroids with the Asteroid Belt that separates Mars and Jupiter, Deskur said that there are smaller clusters throughout space, with some near Earth. Due to these ...

the orbits of asteroids got disturbed and they were scattered towards the inner solar system where they are found today – in the asteroid belt.' Mind the gap! Our early solar system was ...

"You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers!" This month, Earth will grab itself a second moon in the form of ...

It is expected to return in 2051 for another close encounter. Natural Object from the Arjuna Asteroid Belt The report confirms that 2024 PT5 is a natural object, not space debris. Its orbital ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual “inhabitant” of the asteroid belt. With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only the largest body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; unlike its rather ...

However, unlike our permanent lunar companion, this "mini-moon" will only stick around for about two months before returning to its usual orbit within the Arjuna asteroid belt. A Window Shopper ...

Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact ...

"What we found has the potential to inform applications ranging from asteroid deflection to industrial ... More information: Sohanjit Ghosh et al, Quantifying 3D time-resolved kinematics and ...