The Earth has got itself a new moon. The new satellite is temporary: it will leave again at the end of November. And it is ...

Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon — a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. Local educators tell us ...

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

October's full moon will have some company this month now that a mini-moon is in Earth's orbit. Here's what you should know ...

Earth's Mini-Moon refers to the asteroid 2024 PT5 that entered Earth's orbit in late September 2024 and will temporarily ...

A new mini-moon the size of a city bus will begin circling our planet and hanging out in our skies until Thanksgiving week. An asteroid named 2024 PT5 will enter Earth's orbit, get caught there ...

An asteroid known as 2024 PT5—and nicknamed the "Mini Moon"—will orbit Earth alongside the moon from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25. See ...

Mini-moon will not complete a full orbit. Instead, it will experience a slight gravitational pull from Earth before ...

Earth gained a temporary mini-moon for a period of two months, but the origin story of our very own Moon remains a mystery. For decades, scientists believed the Moon formed from debris after a ...

To qualify as a mini-moon, an asteroid must be relatively close to Earth, within 4.5 million kilometers, and travel at a ...

No need for farewells, 2024 PT5 may drop in again in 2055 Everybody be on their best behavior: Earth has a visitor. 2024 PT5 ...

Researchers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) say they discovered a “mini moon”, using equipment at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SALT) in Sutherland in the ...