A small asteroid is going to be captured by Earth’s gravitational pull and temporarily become a "mini-moon" this autumn, ...

From September 29 to November 25, Earth will briefly gain a second moon as asteroid 2024 PT5, measuring approximately 33 feet ...

This means you will not be able to see this mini-moon with the naked eye. You likely won't be able to see it with a telescope ...

A mini-moon is a “temporarily captured orbiter” if it completes at least one full orbit of the Earth before returning to its ...

This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon. NPR visited the facility to find out how the ...

On Sept. 29, the Earth will temporarily get a second moon. A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit before being released ...

Scientists at Purdue University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) suggest Ceres is very icy and might have once been a ...

Earth has a new “mini- moon ” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after ...

Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...

Once in a mini-moon. You won't be able to see the 2024 PT5 asteroid when it hitches a ride in the moon's orbit of Earth starting today — not with your average backyard telescope — but that doesn't ...

But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, astronomers and planetary scientists have pondered the make-up of this ...