On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...

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

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

The vast majority of sky-watchers in Illinois and anywhere else in the world will not be able to view 2024 PT5. The asteroid will be too small and too dim to view with the naked eye or with a backyard ...

Fear not – mini-moons are not as rare an occurrence as readers may think. The paper references 2022 NX 1, for instance, which ...

Earth’s orbit has temporarily welcomed a second moon. Discovered by NASA scientists in early August, the mini-moon, 2024 PT5, ...

This fall, the Earth will have a temporary cosmic companion. Astronomers have discovered that a “mini moon" will orbit our ...

This celestial visitor, dubbed a "mini-moon," was first detected on August 7 by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert ...

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

29). The "mini-moon" comes in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5, which usually orbits the sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth. While Earth's primary companion, the moon ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Over the weekend, a small asteroid entered what will be a nearly two-month orbit around our planet.

Earth captured a miniature, "second moon" this past weekend in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5, according to NASA ...