Earth will soon have a second moon, but it will be nothing like the one we're accustomed to seeing in the night sky. The new "mini-moon" will be asteroid 2024 PT5, a space rock discovered earlier this ...

Earth will soon have a visitor — and not of the extraterrestrial kind. Astronomers found a small asteroid that will orbit our planet this fall, becoming a "mini-moon" temporarily.

Around the world in 57 days. A new moon is expected to be pulled into the Earth’s orbit by the end of September, but the rare ...

Here's what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it's not uncommon for objects flying through space to be attracted to it or get caught up in ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on Tuesday evening. Dubbed 2024 ON, the celestial space rock measures 950 ...

By Christopher Maag The bike-sharing program rewards users who help redistribute bikes around New York City. A few riders have figured out how to turn that into profit. By Christopher Maag Mets ...

2024 — Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on ...

By Yan Zhuang After conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk and traveling farther from Earth than anyone in more than half a century, the astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission returned to ...

As detailed in a new report published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, the rock will loop around the Earth from September 29 to November 25, for a tenure of just ...

2024 — Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on ...