For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

When the world woke up on Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth had an extra moon. 2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a space ...

It’s an exciting time for skywatchers right now, as not only is there the Leonid meter shower to look forward to, but there’s ...

Have you ever worried about the moon getting lonely in its terrestrial orbit? Well, worry no more. The moon has found a friend!

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Did you hear about our little “mini moon”? No, this is not a couple ... a hunk of metal and rock that is named 2024 PT5. This asteroid will become gravitationally tethered ...

The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size ... The space rock — 2024 PT5 — was first spotted in August by astronomers at Complutense University of Madrid using a powerful telescope ...

have a mini-moon orbiting it until Nov. 25. "2024 PT5", as it's called, is only 33 feet long and won't be visible to the naked eye, or even an amateur telescope. But even if you can't see it ...

This phase of the moon is a great time for stargazing since the bright side of the moon faces away from Earth and won’t overshadow celestial bodies and events. Of course, clouds and other weather ...