On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...
Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...
Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...
This week see many special celestial sights, from a bright comet and a solar eclipse to a bright Venus and the possibility of ...
A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep ...
Earth will capture a miniature, "second moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny ...
It is widely believed that the moon formed during a collision between Earth and a small planet known as Theia.
This fall, the Earth will have a temporary cosmic companion. Astronomers have discovered that a “mini moon" will orbit our ...
Earth has got a new mini-moon for the next couple of days and it has fascinated people across social media. Albeit, it might ...
Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon - a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. An astronomer tells whether we ...
Starting this Sunday, stargazers have a unique phenomenon to observe as a school bus-sized asteroid temporarily joins Earth's ...
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) that move in horseshoe-shaped paths can come close to our planet at low speeds. During these times, ...