Earth will soon have a second moon, but it will be nothing like the one we're accustomed to seeing in the night sky. The new "mini-moon" will be asteroid 2024 PT5, a space rock discovered earlier this ...

PT5 will only be in Earth’s orbit for a few weeks, from Sept. 29 until Nov. 25, but will remain close for a few months ...

2024 PT5 will be a temporary visitor, arriving in September and flying off again in November.

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, ...

For nearly two months this year, Earth’s moon will have company — a second moon. Technically, it isn’t a second moon, but ...

An asteroid, pulled into Earth’s orbit, is sometimes known as a ‘mini-moon.’ You’ll need a telescope to view it.

( KTLA) — Earth will soon have two moons, but not for long. According to a study published in the journal Research Notes of ...

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

In a rebuttal to NASA’s 2025 budget request, Chandra director Patrick Slane wrote that despite a longstanding technical issue, the observatory’s efficiency is stable, and the American Astronomical ...

The report published in the American Astronomical Society journal, said asteroid 2024 PT5 will make a horseshoe shaped orbit around our planet over the course of 57 days; ending on November 25th. What ...

In a rare occurrence, the Earth is going to capture an asteroid in its orbit, making the asteroid a mini-moon.