Earth's moon soon won't be the only orbiting body in the sky. 'Mini-moon' asteroid 2024 PT5 will soon be here.

There's a new moon on the horizon. The Earth will gain a second, mini-moon on Sept. 29, but it won't stick around too long.

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

Though referred to as a mini-moon, 2024 PT5 won't complete a full orbit around Earth. Instead, it will be a “temporarily ...

A school-bus-sized asteroid is expected to spend about two months orbiting Earth as a "mini moon" as it gets temporarily ...

Earth is set to play host to a "mini-moon" as a small asteroid about the length of a double decker bus enters the planet's ...

Scientists wrote about the mini-moon and its anticipated orbit around Earth in a study published earlier this month in the non-peer-reviewed journal AAS Research Notes. The small asteroid was ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

Experts say the small asteroid will start its trek around our planet in late September but doesn't pose any threat.

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

A newly discovered asteroid, also referred to as a mini-moon or second moon, is set to enter Earth's orbit temporarily this ...

“Earth can regularly capture asteroids from the Near-Earth object (NEO) population and pull them into orbit, making them mini ...