Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

NASA scientists have calculated that Earth will capture a "second moon" on Sunday (Sept. 29). The "mini-moon" comes in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5, which usually orbits the sun as part of a ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

He said that some objects in the belt can come close enough to Earth and at velocities low enough (roughly 2.8 million miles away and 2,200 miles per hour) to allow them to temporarily orbit Earth.

This month, Earth will grab itself a second moon in the ... and at low velocities of around 2,200 miles per hour (3,540 km/h). "Under these conditions, the geocentric energy of the object may ...

Asteroids that become mini-moons come within 2.8 million miles (4.5 million kilometers) of Earth at speeds under 2,237 miles per hour (3,600 kilometers per hour), he added. “Whether an asteroid ...

Scientists say that a small asteroid is going to enter the Earth's gravitational pull, creating a mini moon beginning Sept.

which has been circling the Earth for a staggering 4.5 billion years. Unfortunately, stargazers won’t be able to see this lunar happy hour unless armed with some high-tech space gear.

A skyscraper-sized asteroid is set to narrowly miss Earth next week ... past our planet at a staggering speed of 19,685 miles per hour - approximately 25 times the speed of sound.

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system, which formed ... [+] around 466 million years ago. Scientists have found evidence that Earth may have once had a ...

A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday ... awaiting the recovery team. Within an hour, all four were out of their spacecraft, pumping their fists with joy as they ...

Earth tends to pull asteroids into partial or full orbits around it regularly before they are flung back out into space. Artist’s impression of asteroid in space (NASA/JPL-Caltech) For instance ...