A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're ...

The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...

In just over one week’s time, Earth will gain a new celestial companion that will stay for two months in the planet’s ...

Starting next week an asteroid about the size of a school bus will be temporarily caught by the Earth’s gravity. It’s called ...

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

Earth’s gravity has disrupted an asteroid named 2024 P-T-5. The space rock and the Earth are now in a fleeting gravitational dance. Jordan-Marie Smith is a producer with NPR's All Things Considered.

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

While Earth doesn’t have the twin suns of a “Galaxy Far, Far Away” it is soon expected to pick up another moon – at least for ...

Earth will have a second “mini-moon” in addition to its regular lunar companion for about two months starting on Sept. 29, ...