Don’t space out or you’ll miss it. A once-in-a-generation asteroid broader than the width of Manhattan will be passing by the Earth — and there’s a chance you can see it for yourself.

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

The small near-Earth object 2024 PT5 captured the world’s attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to, but never orbiting, our planet for several months.

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Typically, asteroids - like the one depicted in this artist's concept - originate from the main asteroid belt between the ...

On Sunday, the asteroid will reach a peak brightness of magnitude 9.4, which is too faint for the naked eye but visible through entry-level binoculars or a backyard telescope, according to ...

A small asteroid named 2024 PT5, once hailed as Earth's temporary second moon, might have originated from our very own Moon.

If you want to do it the easy way, you can see a livestream of the asteroid today from the comfort of your home via the Virtual Telescope Project. Asteroids are, by definition, irregular pieces of ...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...