The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August.

An asteroid is headed ... about the asteroid. Some past mini-moons, such as this one from 2020, have been discovered to be random pieces of space junk. The 2020 mini-moon was eventually ...

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

A small asteroid may become a "mini-moon" of Earth's for a couple of months, according to some astronomers. But what makes ...

A recently discovered asteroid will soon become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two ...

There's a lot of debris in our solar system, and every so often we get to see it — meteors streaking against a starry sky, a ...

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

The asteroid will orbit the Earth ... what we've got is something that's about the moon's orbit or so it's about that kind of distance. So in no way is it going to get close enough to threaten ...

2024 PT₅ will then swing past for a final goodbye on 9 January 2025, coming within 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) ...

discovered in the past few years. But classifying exactly what makes an asteroid a mini-moon is harder than it seems. To help you get to get this mini-moon into your orbit, we've answered five ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid ... full moon on Tuesday night. If you have a properly equipped telescope, you might even be able to spot this potentially hazardous telescope skimming past ...