An newly discovered asteroid will be captured by Earth's gravity this fall. The "mini-moon" will spend about two months in ...

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

The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will do a 56-day horseshoe-shaped fly-by near Earth before it continues on it journey.

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

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

A recently-discovered asteroid will soon become a mini-moon of Earth, and it will hang around until Thanksgiving.

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 ...

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

A n asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s ...

PT5 will orbit Earth from September 29 to November 25, before breaking free from the planet's gravitational pull.

In other words, for a total of 56.6 days, Earth will have two moons (well, one proper Moon and one mini-moon, to be precise). The study notes that 2024 PT 5 is “unlikely to be artificial ...

In other words, the asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 could become a "mini-moon" — at least for a little ... the rock will loop around the Earth from September 29 to November 25, for a tenure of just ...