A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

Our new mini-moon is approximately 10 meters in diameter and will be captured by Earth's gravity for 57 days. It's small and faint, so it won't be visible by the eye or with small telescopes, but ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply ...

Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a second moon this year. This mini moon will loop around our planet from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25. This mini moon is actually Asteroid 2024 PT5. It belongs to a ...

Astrophiles will welcome the peak illumination of the Beaver Moon this mid-November. Here's the date of the full moon in ...

Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our ...

New research shows that volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago, mirroring activity on the near ...

This, they believe, is a mini-moon, a miniature satellite akin to our ... he can usually be found enjoying a new world in a video game, or tinkering with something on his computer.

Earth is set to play host to a “mini-moon” this week, as a small asteroid – about the length of a double-decker bus – enters the planet’s orbit. The temporary guest, called 2024 PT5 ...

New research confirms volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon billions of years ago. Researchers analyzed lunar ...