For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

When the world woke up on Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth had an extra moon. 2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a space ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

The moon is our only natural satellite. We might pick up a temporary mini-moon here and there, but the moon is Earth's ride or die. Scientists have a few thoughts on how the moon formed ...

Forever Held' was created in collaboration with Ólafur Arnalds and is inspired by “love letters from Earth to space” ...

Samantha Harvey's 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital explores the raw reality of life in space, devoid of fantasy.

This, they believe, is a mini-moon, a miniature satellite akin to our own lunar object. And, because it’s so small, astronomers say the chances of us seeing this tiny satellite from Earth were ...

November’s night sky offers Venus and a crescent moon shining together as five planets emerge after sunset and a “Super ...