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 ...

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

Mini-moons are asteroids that fail to escape Earth’s gravity and end up orbiting the planet for some time. Why are they ...

Earth is getting another “mini” moon this month, and a University of Iowa astronomer said the school bus-sized meteor ...