This image of the temporary mini-moon 2020 CD3 (center) was obtained with the 8-meter Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea and combines three photos through different filters to produce the ...

A second "mini-moon" — asteroid 2024 PT5 — will temporarily enter the Earth's orbit later this month Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tumbling through Earth's increasingly crowded orbit are about 5,000 satellites, half a million ...

The first photo is in of Earth's new and temporary 'mini moon.' Discovered by astronomers on February 15 using the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona, the 6-11 ft. diameter 'temporarily captured ...

It's also not the first time this has happened... It's also not the first time this has happened... It's also not the first time this has happened... Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it ...

In case you haven’t heard the big news yet, Earth now has a second moon. But it will be around for only a short period of time. Almost full moon. Earth obtained a new mini-moon, which is actually a ...

Scientists aren't sure if 2024 PT5 is an asteroid. At roughly 10 meters in length, 2024 PT5 is difficult to spot without a telescope. Yet a new study reveals that for the next two months, 2024 PT5 ...

NASA calls it *** cosmic touch and go. When we made contact with the surface, there was *** one second delay and then we fired that high pressure nitrogen gas and the surface just exploded in October ...