We may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our orbit. Asteroid hunters have ...
The space rock has an elliptical orbit that takes it past the orbit of the planet Mars and in between the ... called doomsday asteroid" set to pass closer than Earth’s artificial satellites ...
Image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid ... orbit as Earth’s. Previous research suggested that Kamo’oalewa may have originated from the Moon ...
Eclipses of all types are caused by an alignment in space between ... pass by the sun at regular intervals, the perfect lineup necessary for a solar eclipse is often missed. The moon's orbit ...