The samples were collected by Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused with Ryugu in June 2018.

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Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

A temporary “mini- moon ” orbiting the Earth for the last two months drifted away on Tuesday, resuming its journey around the ...

Crucially this water would be separated, like oil and water, from a carbon-rich layer below that divides the ocean from each ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

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Earth’s second satellite, a “Mini Moon,” is leaving orbit Monday after following our planet for approximately two months.

Freshwater reserves on land and underground have dramatically declined over the past decade, raising concerns that Earth’s ...