The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will do a 56-day horseshoe-shaped fly-by near Earth before it continues on it journey.

Now named asteroid 2024 PT5, it will be captured in Earth's gravitational pull between Sept. 29 and Nov. 25. After that, it will escape Earth's orbit and be pulled toward the sun before continuing ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month. brutto film - stock.adobe.com Our blue moon will no longer be standing ...

Asteroid 2024 JV33 looked like a "peanut" – "with two rounded lobes, one lobe larger than the other", showed a series of images caputured by the Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow ...

Recently, NASA issued a warning that a giant 110-foot asteroid named 2024 RN16 was expected to approach Earth on 15 September. However, it didn't happen, and the asteroid safely passed by Earth.

A recently-discovered asteroid will soon become a mini-moon of Earth, and it will hang around until Thanksgiving.

The asteroid, named 2024 PT 5, was discovered on August 7 and ... So-called mini-moons have graced Earth’s presence before. Asteroid 2022 NX 1 was a short-lived mini-moon in 1981.

Earth is about to gain a second moon! A "mini-moon" named 2024 PT5 is a small asteroid that will temporarily orbit our planet for about two months without the risk of collision. According to a ...

A small and “harmless” asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines Wednesday afternoon, creating a fireball that lit up the sky, photos show. The asteroid zoomed high above ...

A small asteroid on a collision course with Earth today burned up harmlessly in Earth's atmosphere. The European Space Agency (ESA) says a 3-foot (1-meter ... known as 2024 RW1, was discovered ...

2024 RW1, just hours before its predicted atmospheric entry over the Philippines. The asteroid, roughly 1 meter (3 feet) in size, was spotted by Jacqueline Fazekas of NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey ...