Meet asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth’s latest mini-moon. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at the ...

Earth will have a second “mini-moon” in addition to its regular lunar companion for about two months starting on Sept. 29, ...

Starting next week an asteroid about the size of a school bus will be temporarily caught by the Earth’s gravity. It’s called 2024 PT5 or more commonly known as the ...

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

A new potential NASA mission involves firing sensor bullets into the lunar surface - quite literally shooting the moon.

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

Earth’s gravity has disrupted an asteroid named 2024 P-T-5. The space rock and the Earth are now in a fleeting gravitational dance. Jordan-Marie Smith is a producer with NPR's All Things Considered.

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

Two cosmonauts have set the record for the most days spent continuously aboard the International Space Station (ISS), ...

A tiny asteroid will begin to orbit Earth starting Sept. 29 and will essentially act as a mini-moon, according to a new study ...

A small asteroid called 2024 PT5 will temporarily orbit Earth this fall. Here's what it looks like and whether it will be ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...