An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as ...

PT5 will orbit Earth like a mini-moon for about two months before rejoining an asteroid belt orbiting the sun. It will take ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

The new study suggests that 2024 PT5 likely originated from the Arjuna asteroid belt—a collection of diverse space rocks that ...

The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

The tiny asteroid, which researchers named "2024 PT5," will temporarily orbit Earth before returning to an asteroid belt ...

The Earth has pulled in moons of this type before but none have ever stuck around as long as the moon we know.

Most of that ancient detritus is too far away to pose a threat to this planet. The majority are in the main asteroid belt ...

Hours after an Arizona observatory spotted a tiny unknown asteroid zooming toward Earth, it harmlessly crashed into our planet’s atmosphere, breaking up over the Philippines. While this 3-foot ...

"This asteroid is only the ninth that mankind has ever discovered before its impact." However, it was harmless for the Earth, they say. The US Catalina Sky Survey program, which looks out for ...

(Allan G. Madelar via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — A small asteroid discovered on Wednesday harmlessly burned up in Earth’s atmosphere the same day, NASA said. The asteroid — about 3 feet (1 meter ...

A small asteroid slammed into Earth's atmosphere over Luzon Island in the Philippines Wednesday night, lighting up the dark sky as if it was daytime. In the early hours of September 4, 2024, ...