Earth to capture a ‘second moon’ this weekend, NASA says
Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5. It will start orbiting the planet in a horseshoe path and stick around for a little less than two months before escaping Earth’s gravitational pull and going back to its regular orbit around the sun.
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...
The results show that X-rays could play an even bigger role than the initial shock wave itself, though more data needs to be ...
Live Science on MSN1d
Nuking an asteroid could save Earth from destruction, researchers show in 1st-of-its-kind X-ray experimentA nuclear bomb could save Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact, according to a first-of-its-kind lab study.The new ...
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...
Nuclear devices generate massive amounts of X-rays. A new experiment suggests that might be enough to divert a killer ...
An asteroid is approaching the Earth, which experts say will be close to enough to technically become a temporary second moon ...
9don MSN
The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...
Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.
China to launch near-Earth asteroid sample return mission in 2025 China will launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample a ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results
Feedback