Earth is going to have its very own mini-moon from September 29 until November 25. The regular moon's new, temporary friend is 2024 PT₅, an asteroid captured from the Arjuna asteroid group ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

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Earth is getting a tiny new mini-moon for a few weeks. It won’t be the first – or the last. Earth is going to have its very own mini-moon from 29 September until 25 November. The regular Moon’s new, ...

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Unlike the existing moon — which has orbited our planet for about 4 billion years — this new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking ...

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 ...

It’s here: Earth has gained a mysterious new visitor from deep space—but it won’t stay long. First spied on August 7 by a telescope in South Africa as it swooped within about a half-million ...

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New Zealand transports you to an exotic, magnificent and isolated island chain where the mysterious and unexpected story of its true nature is revealed. Narrated by Sam Neill.

A second moon orbiting a planet may seem like something out of a science fiction novel. But a second “moon” entered Earth’s orbit Sunday and will loop around the planet until late November. This ...