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

An Arjuna asteroid, discovered in August, will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25.

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

"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 ...

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

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

have been discovered to be random pieces of space junk. The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this upcoming ...

Starting in late September, Earth is going to have a second moon for two brief ... since these space particles could become a valuable resource in the future. Mini-moons are often hard to identify ...

Earth is about to gain a new "mini-moon," but it won't stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, ...

2024 PT₅ will then swing past for a final goodbye on 9 January 2025, coming within 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) ...

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