A Minnesota horticulture teacher remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern ...

A second moon has officially entered Earth’s orbit—sort of. Although it’s being called a “mini-moon,” it’s actually an asteroid named 2024 PT5. The asteroid has been temporarily ...

“To be a bird and tuck my head into my feathered neck, watch all the world turn dark,” Nandi Rose sang at the dawn of her last Half Waif album, Mythopoetics. “Wish I could live like that.

This October half term, Bristol Aquarium is talking about all of the different ways that its animals can be deadly. From poison to pincers, barbed stingers to gnashing jaws, it will be exploring some ...

The word is used for asteroids or comets that become bound to our gravity and so become a satellite, just like the real Moon that we see every night is. They are “mini” because they are small ...

If you were hoping to see the “mini moon,” you’ve probably been disappointed. But experts say the asteroid was an important milestone in planetary defense research. Though there are hundreds ...

That’s the worrying finding of an expert group of health advisers meeting at the UN World Health Organization (WHO), which said that more than half of these so-called “zero-dose” children live in 31 ...

The mini moon will orbit Earth for about two months before breaking free on November 25. It is not visible to the naked eye and requires advanced telescopes for observation. The asteroid belongs ...

Earth has a new, temporary companion in space: a "mini moon" named Asteroid 2024 PT5. This small space rock, about the size of a bus, was caught by Earth’s gravity on Sunday. But don’t expect ...

Whereas the moon dominates the night sky over Earth for at least half the month, 2024 PT5 won't be observable to the average skywatcher. However, professional astronomers may be able to grab us ...