A car-sized asteroid will pass us at about half the distance between Earth and its moon tonight (Dec. 6).

Over 4.6 billion years ago, the early Earth emerged from a swirling disk of gas and dust encircling the young sun. This primordial material collided and coalesced, forming larger bodies through ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send debris hurtling towards our planet that could take out orbiting satellites ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.

Earth just got a second moon, but not for long. Here's why The ‘mini moon’ is actually a small asteroid, the size of a school bus, that is known as 2024 PT5.

Learn all about the Moon with these interactive learning resources for KS2 Science students aged 7-11 from BBC Bitesize.

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far longer in the sky than humans have roamed the planet. A follow-up study ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month.

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is 10 meters wide, which is about 33 feet, roughly the size of a city bus. In contrast, Earth's moon has a diameter of 2,159 miles, making 2024 PT5 just a tiny speck compared to it.

The 32-foot asteroid is expected to zoom past Earth on October 28, at a distance of about 148,000 miles.

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