An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

“It was nearly orbiting us for about two months ... just how many times impacts on the moon have sent wayward space rocks flying into the vicinity of Earth. Kareta and members of his team ...

Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size.

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have ... from the moon. If only one existed, we could say it's a space oddity. However, the presence of two such ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.