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

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 ...

You can see the astroid, named 2024 PT5, for a short time before it heads on its way.

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

The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our world from September 29 to November 25, according to astronomers. Then, the space rock will ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

Many skirt past us, and occasionally, they make landfall—but in rare cases, an asteroid of just the right size and speed will ...

which warns of asteroid impacts. Unlike the existing moon — which has orbited our planet for about 4 billion years — this new ...

Around 4 billion years ago, an enormous asteroid that was at least 10 times larger than the space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs smashed into Jupiter's massive icy moon, Ganymede. The cataclysmic ...

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

Around 4 billion years ago, an enormous asteroid that was at least 10 times larger than the space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs smashed into Jupiter's massive icy moon, Ganymede. The ...