When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tumbling through Earth's increasingly crowded orbit are about 5,000 satellites, half a million ...
Scientists working for a NASA-funded project at the University of Arizona said that a possible "mini moon" is currently orbiting the Earth. Kacper Wierzchos of the Catalina Sky Survey tweeted this ...
Spotted earlier this year, asteroid 2020 CD3 is only the second temporary natural satellite, or minimoon, ever detected around Earth. It didn’t stick around for very long, but we learned some ...
On Feb. 15, astronomers Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne of the Catalina Sky Survey spotted a strange blip of light zip across their screens. “BIG NEWS,” Wierzchos tweeted this week. That blip, he ...