This story was updated to add new information. The Earth will soon have a second mini-moon, although it will be a brief visit. Scientists wrote about the mini-moon and its anticipated orbit around ...

A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed 2024 PT5 ...

Our solar system is filled with moons both big and small. The ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, have 28 and 16 moons, respectively. Jupiter and Saturn have hundreds of moons between them and even Pluto, ...

For the next two months, the moon will have a temporary companion in its orbit around the Earth. A small asteroid, called a “mini-moon,” will partially circle the Earth before returning on an ...

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Earth will have an extra moon for a couple of weeks this fall, and it may return for a second round in a few decades. A 33-foot asteroid named 2024 PT5 is expected to be pulled into orbit around the ...

Earth will be hosting a new guest this fall. No, it's not an alien. It's an asteroid. The space rock, which has been named “2024 PT5,” has been traveling along its normal path around the sun, but will ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has made it to the moon. Blue Ghost fired its engines for four minutes and 15 seconds on Thursday (Feb. 13), injecting itself into an elliptical lunar orbit ahead ...