You can see the astroid, named 2024 PT5, for a short time before it heads on its way.

An asteroid will pass so close to Earth on Sept. 29 that it will temporarily be captured by gravity and be our planetary ...

"Mini-moon" events are when pieces in space like an asteroid or floating pieces of space junk temporarily participate in orbiting the Earth with some completing a full revolution. In order to be ...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

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

Although this mini-moon cannot be seen by the naked eye – it is just 10 ... there is a chance that we are just recovering ...

A pair of asteroid dynamics researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria have found that a small ...

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

On August 7, 2024, NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected a space object that, for a little ...

Later this month, an asteroid called 2024 PT5 will be joining Earth's orbit, becoming a mini-moon. The mini-moon will be in ...

This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...