This fall, the Earth will have a temporary cosmic companion. Astronomers have discovered that a “mini moon" will orbit our ...

Here’s the deal: On Sept. 29 Earth’s gravity snagged a “mini moon” and pulled it into our orbit. This second moon is ...

It is widely believed that the moon formed during a collision between Earth and a small planet known as Theia.

Something strange happened when the Earth was gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020: the Moon got substantially ...

To qualify as a mini-moon, an asteroid must be relatively close to Earth, within 4.5 million kilometers, and travel at a ...

Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon — a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. Local educators tell us ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...

Mini-moon will not complete a full orbit. Instead, it will experience a slight gravitational pull from Earth before ...

No need for farewells, 2024 PT5 may drop in again in 2055 Everybody be on their best behavior: Earth has a visitor. 2024 PT5 ...

While the US remains on track to send humans back to the moon, China isn’t far behind. In fact, the China Manned Space Agency ...

Its orbit will take it in a horseshoe shape, around the Earth and then back out into the depths of outer space. The word is ...

Zappa talks about her guitarist father, Frank, her first novel and 9/11, and why it took so long to write her second book, ...