Small mini-moons are very common, but ones big enough to spot are more rare. 2024 PT₅ is only the fifth ever detected mini-moon captured by Earth. A mini-moon is a "temporarily captured orbiter ...

NASA is planning to return humankind to the moon for the first time in over five decades. The agency has narrowed its safe ...

That alert system is a project to spot near-Earth objects that could endanger life on Earth, but the mini-moon is not thought to pose any risk. The find was reported in a paper published last ...

Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

NASA plans to bring humankind back to the moon, but it first needs to figure ... and flexibility for mission landing. Each spot is in the lunar South Pole, which has never been explored in a ...