CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday, overcome ...

Earth has its fair share of fleeting companions. But sometimes, these so-called "mini-moons" have a surprising origin story. Take 2024 PT5, a bus-sized asteroid that drifted near Earth last year.

Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our planet for decades before slipping back into deep space. NASA and independent ...

A temporary “mini-moon” orbiting the Earth for the last two months drifted away on Tuesday, resuming its journey around the Sun. The 10m-wide asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 had been circling the Earth since ...

Astronomers have re-discovered a temporary moon that has joined Earth’s orbit. The mini-moon/asteroid is named 2025 PN7. It’s about 62 feet in diameter and will eventually return to its other orbital ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Planet Earth is ...