"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 ...
Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk ...
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...
On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...
Fascinatingly, observations with the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona and the NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) in Hawai'i, which were taken shortly after 2024 PT5 was discovered on Aug.
The asteroid 2024 PT5 was probably the result of an earlier object’s collision with the moon.CreditCredit...Tony Dunn Earth often encounters drifting objects, including asteroids or meteoroids ...