The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

It is expected to follow a horseshoe-type orbit to become a “mini-moon” of Earth on 29 September only to return to a path ...

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

Jupiter, eat your heart out: Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month. The space rock’s celestial sojourn was ...

PT5 is a 10-meter (33-feet) wide space rock that is expected to come as close as 1 million kilometers of Earth in an orbital ...

An asteroid is approaching the Earth which the experts say will come close enough to be caught in our planet’s gravity well, ...

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

Earth will welcome a visitor in a few days as a traveling asteroid is expected to spend almost two months revolving around ...

Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which ... visit belongs to the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow orbits very similar to that of Earth ...

Earth is about to get a temporary companion as an asteroid known as "2024 PT5" will become a "mini-moon" starting on 29. Discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in South Africa ...

Say hello to Earth’s temporary new mini-moon. From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid will be pulled ... scientists are able to detect the tiny rock in the first place.

But classifying exactly what makes an asteroid a mini-moon is harder than it seems ... One type is called a "trojan" satellite, which is a space rock that sits either in front or behind the ...