For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

The "mini-moon" designation, which is used to refer ... While the asteroid never posed a threat to our planet, it did intrigue astronomers, who rushed to study it before it bid farewell and ...

Scientists think our planet’s “mini-moon,” a small rock discovered near Earth in 2024, was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos ...

but it never actually entered into an orbit around our planet. However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as it is potentially a piece of the real moon, said Dr. Teddy Kareta, a postdoctoral ...

Identified by astronomers in August 2024 near Earth, a small space rock is likely a fragment of the moon that broke off ...

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 ...