An newly discovered asteroid will be captured by Earth's gravity this fall. The "mini-moon" will spend about two months in ...

The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will do a 56-day horseshoe-shaped fly-by near Earth before it continues on it journey.

The mini-moon is Asteroid 2024 PT5, which was discovered in August. In an article published by the American Astronomical ...

Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're ...

Asteroids from the Earth pass by all the time but we are expecting a friendly visitor staying around for the next couple ...

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

PT5 will orbit Earth briefly from September 29 to November 25, 2024, acting as a mini moon. It was discovered in August 2024 ...

PT5 will orbit Earth from September 29 to November 25, before breaking free from the planet's gravitational pull.

An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s likely to become trapped in orbit and become a mini-moon.

Astronomers have spotted a tiny space rock — just 33 feet long — which is set to be captured by the Earth's gravity for a singular orbit. In other words, the asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 could ...

The temporary capture of asteroid 2024 PT5 offers a unique opportunity to study near-Earth objects and their interactions with our planet. As it makes its brief journey around Earth, it will ...

“The object is unlikely to be artificial as its short-term dynamical evolution closely resembles that of 2022 NX1,” they wrote in the paper, referring to another asteroid that became a mini-moon in ...