Earth is going to have its very own mini-moon from September 29 until November 25. The regular moon's new, temporary friend is 2024 PT₅, an asteroid captured from the Arjuna asteroid group (called the ...

Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our planet for decades before slipping back into deep space. NASA and independent ...

Earth has got a new mini-moon for the next couple of days and it has fascinated people across social media. Albeit, it might not be visible to the naked eye without a telescope due to its small size.

A lot is going on in the skies this fall. You’ll see a powerful solar eclipse in Libra on Oct. 2, a full moon in fiery Aries on Oct. 17, and expansive Jupiter will be retrograde on Oct. 9. Oh, and ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized. The ...

A new study has concluded that Earth's mini-moons may not have come from the asteroid belt as we once thought, but a source far closer to home. According to the team, Earth likely has around 6.5 ...