The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

Two had already zipped past early in the morning ... 19.5 times the distance between the moon and the planet, reads a description on the agency's asteroid watch dashboard. The average distance ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have spotted what appears to be an asteroid headed for Earth orbit.

For the past couple of weeks ... It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept.

A small asteroid is going to be captured by Earth’s gravitational pull and temporarily become a "mini-moon". This space visitor ... little dot kind of moving past the stars at great speed ...

Earth has a new “mini-moon” after an asteroid has joined our orbit ... But we have had them in the past, as in the case of 2022 NX1 – which joined Earth as a mini-Moon in 1981 and then ...