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

In simple terms, a mini-moon is a space object that is temporarily captured in a planet's orbit, as opposed to regular moons, ...

PT5 could be anywhere between 16 to 138 feet across, potentially larger than the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, ...

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

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

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 ...

A small asteroid called 2024 PT5 will temporarily orbit Earth this fall. Here's what it looks like and whether it will be ...

Meet asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth’s latest mini-moon. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at the ...

Volcanoes were still erupting on the moon during Earth’s dinosaur age, new research suggests, much more recently than previously believed. Three tiny glass beads that were collected from the ...

FILE - This Dec. 2, 2020, file image taken by panoramic camera aboard the lander-ascender combination of Chang'e-5 spacecraft provided by China National Space Administration shows a moon surface ...

The idea was for a device that stands around 2m tall, weighs 50kg and can turn the moon’s soil into purified drink water. It was half conjured up during one of Mr Barnett’s classes at the ...

As NASA and its suppliers plan moon habitats, including patenting activity for erecting a 3D printer on the moon and using lunar regolith as a building material, a fundamental question looms ...