A mini-moon is on track to enter Earth’s orbit and come as close as 27,000 miles away. However, rather than some asteroid that will orbit around the Earth, it may actually just be some old space ...

Bill Gray, who created a software package astronomers use to track nearby asteroids and comets, told me that he’s certain our mini-moon has gone back to orbiting the sun rather than our planet.

We checked out the interactive Doodle popcorn game back in September, and now Google’s introducing another one, all centered around the phases of the moon. Dubbed “Rise of the Half Moon ...

It won’t be around for much longer though, he says, as the mini-moon is leaving Earth’s orbit and “returning to the sun-centered orbit from which it came.” Using telescopes, he and his ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates ... The reason the moon appears to turn red during an eclipse is because Earth's atmosphere filters light from the Sun, with only the reddest light making it ...

If you click on Friday's Google Doodle, celebrating the lunar cycle, you'll go into a click-to-play card battler that turns the moon's eight phases into your own personal combo deck. In the game ...

Earth will soon be gaining a “mini ... sun. Jim Todd, the director of space science and industry at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, says this likely isn’t the first mini-moon ...

2024 PT5 will be pulled toward the sun and continue traveling around the solar system. Though 2024 PT5 is relatively small in terms of asteroids, the visiting mini-moon is still about the size of ...

The Earth will soon have a second mini-moon this fall. A newly discovered asteroid ... pulling toward the sun and then moving throughout the solar system. During its 56-day orbit, asteroid 2024 ...