This year’s rare total lunar eclipse, also known as the Blood Worm Moon, will paint the sky red between March 13 and 14.

The object, roughly the size of a bus, became temporarily captured by Earth’s gravity, earning it the moniker of a “mini-moon.” What sets 2024 PT5 apart is its composition, which bears a ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This discovery has led scientists to believe there are many more ...

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Discovered in August 2024, PT5’s silicate-rich composition rules out an artificial origin. The study, led by Theodore Kareta (Lowell Observatory) and Oscar Fuentes-Munoz (NASA JPL), is available ...

These experiments aim to advance lunar exploration technologies, including studying moon dust behaviour, fire dynamics... Asteroid 2024 PT5, discovered near Earth in 2024, is suspected to be a fra ...

The Blood Worm isn’t the last rare occasion to grace the sky, as a new moon was pulled into the Earth’s orbit last September. At the time, the phenomenon—known as an asteroid named 2024 PT5 ...