The asteroid will orbit the Earth for about two months starting from Sept. 29. The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. An asteroid will come close ...

A 10-metre-long “mini-moon” will join Earth’s orbit for about two months starting next week. A mini-moon is an astronomical body that is pulled into a planet’s orbit. Unlike regular moons ...

Earth will be "borrowing" an extra moon for nearly two months starting this week ... which researchers named "2024 PT5," will temporarily orbit Earth before returning to an asteroid belt and ...

The moon will soon have a companion in Earth's orbit for a limited time. An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months starting Sept. 29, according to a study published ...

Then it will stay on its new orbit around the Sun ... the journal Research Notes of the AAS , under the title ‘A Two-month Mini-moon’. There, researchers reported that the object was expected ...

Artist's impression of an asteroid in orbit around the Sun. © DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine Starting at the end of September, Earth ...

The first close-up image of the moon's south pole was then captured during the lunar orbit insertion itself. In the next roughly two weeks, Firefly mission engineers plan to calibrate the ...

An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why ...