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 ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the agency responsible for cataloging asteroids, quickly retracted the classification ...
New research suggests that Earth's recent mini-moon might have originated as part of our actual moon long, long ago.
NASA and other space agencies are keeping a close eye on the asteroid - which is estimated to be between 130ft and 330ft ...
The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...