A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Then, the space rock will return to a heliocentric orbit, which is an orbit around the sun. Details about the ephemeral mini-moon and the horseshoe-shaped path it travels were published this month ...

Researchers warn that “city killer” space rock could approach our planet again in the future, while another, “extinction”-causing asteroid could potentially threaten Earth as well ...

For instance, one such space rock 2022 NX 1 was a short-lived “mini-moon” in 1981 and again in 2022. The asteroid 2024 PT5 as the name suggests was only discovered last month by scientists ...

The space rock, dubbed 2024 BX1 ... the hole light passes through to enter a camera — to keep the starry background sharp and let the asteroid appear as a trail of light. When photographing ...

Scientists have found that a mysterious space rock that lit up the skies over parts of Canada in February 2021 wasn't a comet, despite coming from a distant part of the Solar System where comets ...

It was from a football field–size asteroid designated 2024 YR4. Detected in December by a telescope in Chile, the space rock was flagged for its size—it’s 130 to 300 feet long, big enough to ...