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 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.

A newly discovered asteroid, also referred to as a mini-moon or second moon, is set to enter Earth's orbit temporarily this ...

A recently-discovered asteroid will soon become a mini-moon of Earth, and it will hang around until Thanksgiving.

It won't be there forever, but Earth will have a second moon when a small asteroid begins to orbit the planet later this ...

In separate incidents in the past, scientists mistook rocket stages and the Gaia spacecraft as mini-moons. But researchers ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

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

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

In 2020, a mini-moon was discovered, later identified as a piece of space junk—a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 ...

Here's what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it's not uncommon for objects flying through space to be attracted to it or get caught up in ...