Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space ...

Earth gained a mini-moon this Sunday, Sept. 29 by capturing a nearby asteroid with its gravitational field. Earth pulled asteroid 2024 PT5 into its gravitational field, changing the asteroid’s orbit ...

The tiny space rock was likely flung off the Moon's surface after a massive impact not too long ago. Reading time 3 minutes For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This discovery has led scientists to believe there are many more ...

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. Mini-moons are small asteroids or comets that can become ...

Astronomers have re-discovered a temporary moon that has joined Earth’s orbit. The mini-moon/asteroid is named 2025 PN7. It’s about 62 feet in diameter and will eventually return to its other orbital ...

During this next close pass, NASA will use the Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna in California's Mojave Desert, which is part of the space agency's Deep Space Network, to track the asteroid before ...