A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket ... and it only circles about 25% of the Earth. The asteroid won't complete a full orbit of Earth, so some astronomers refer to it as ...

This Sunday night and into Monday sees the maximum of the annual Leonids meteor shower. The shower has previously been a show ...

Scientists first caught sight of the mini-moon while observing an asteroid named Polymele ... chances of us seeing this tiny satellite from Earth were near impossible. That’s because the ...

The asteroid originally orbited the sun but was recently pulled into Earth's orbit, classifying it as a mini-moon. Marcos added that it will not complete a full circular orbit but rather a ...

We start with the news of the Europa Clipper and its search for the conditions of life on a watery moon around Jupiter. Then we talk about Earth’s new mini moon, before catching up on what’s ...

Earth welcomed asteroid 2024 PT5 as a temporary moon. 2024 PT5, 37 feet wide, is leaving Earth's orbit in November. Scientists study mini-moons like 2024 PT5 to improve tracking.