It’s an exciting time for astronomy enthusiasts as Earth will temporarily get a second moon for almost two months. A recent ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid ...

An newly discovered asteroid will be captured by Earth's gravity this fall. The "mini-moon" will spend about two months in ...

Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long.The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, ...

The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...

In just over one week’s time, Earth will gain a new celestial companion that will stay for two months in the planet’s ...

NASA-funded scientists discovered a tiny asteroid ... and will temporarily join the moon in its orbit around the Earth next week, becoming a mini-moon. Asteroid 2024 PT5 is about the size ...

Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. By Nov. 25, the mini-moon is expected to break free of Earth ...

The hunk of rock, dubbed 2024 PT5 will fly into Earth's orbit, get caught there from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25 and then go on its ...

Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're ...

The mini-moon will be small — 33 feet long — and dim. NASA uses magnitude to describe brightness in space. A 6.5 magnitude is generally the dimmest object the human eye can see. The mini-moon ...

Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said 2024 PT5 is possibly a piece of ejecta from an impact on the moon, meaning the mini ...