Brian Hackney reports on the possible origins of Earth's recent "mini-moon" that is preparing to depart our orbit.
Astronomers used the Two-meter Twin Telescope to catch a "see-you-soon" image of the departing asteroid 2024 PT5.
Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September and expected to hold on to it till November according to Universidad ...
Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...
Asteroid 2024 PT5 didn't stick around for Thanksgiving, but don't be sad. It will be back... but will it ever be a second ...
After a two-month visit, 2024 PT5 is ready to continue its cosmic journey—but it will be back in a few decades.
A temporary “mini- moon ” orbiting the Earth for the last two months drifted away on Tuesday, resuming its journey around the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the ...
Scientists believe the so-called "mini moon" was once part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, a group of asteroids following a ...
Earth will say goodbye to an asteroid that has acted as a mini moon for the past two months. But astronomers say it will ...
The mini moon, known as 2024 PT5, is quite possibly a boulder blasted off the moon by a crater-forming asteroid ...
The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...