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

(CNN) — Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long.

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

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

(CNN) — Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named ...

LOS ANGELES — Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. But this one won’t be making an impact.

Astronomers have reported that Earth will have two natural satellites for nearly two months, from September 29 to November 25 ...

For almost two months, from 29 September to 25 November, Earth will have two natural satellites, astronomers have announced.

Marcos explained that some of these objects in the Arjuna asteroid belt can approach Earth at a close range of around 2.8 million miles (4.5 million km) and at low velocities of around 2,200 miles ...

The asteroid 2024 PT5, discovered on August 7 by two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos using NASA’s asteroid impact ...

The duo, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raul de la Fuente Marcos, pointed out in their recently published paper Earth can regularly capture asteroids from the Near-Earth object (NEO) population ...

Two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, have studied the orbit of the object and concluded that it will become captured ...