Planet Earth is bidding farewell to a "mini moon," a harmless asteroid named 2024 PT5, which has been trailing Earth for two months and will leave on Monday, drawn away by the sun’s stronger ...
Scientists suspect it may be a boulder that was blasted off the moon during an asteroid impact. FILE - A supermoon with a partial lunar eclipse rises over Lake Michigan in Chicago, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP ...
Asteroid 2024 PT5, measuring about 33 feet (10 metres) in diameter, was discovered in August 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) operated by the University of Hawaii. The ...
NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) first spotted the space rock in early August. By the end of September, Earth’s gravity had pulled it into what would become a ...
Humanity's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, known nicely as ATLAS, spotted the object as per its job which is to detect objects in space that could endanger life on Earth.
This advanced warning could be the difference between having time to deflect the asteroid onto a safe path and a cataclysmic impact. Normally, light takes a straight path from an object to our ...