Earth will soon have a second moon, but it will be nothing like the one we're accustomed to seeing in the night sky. The new "mini-moon" will be asteroid 2024 PT5, a space rock discovered earlier this ...

A new dataset from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory maps one million cis-lunar orbits, highlighting orbital stability challenges, space domain awareness needs, and planning requirements for Moon ...

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2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and is 11 meters in diameter (artist's impression shows an asteroid approaching Earth). Say hello to 2024 PT5, Earth’s newest mini-moon. Expected to go into orbit of ...

The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, a fact confirmed by decades of laser measurements and detailed in a recent ...

The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

2024 PT5, Earth’s newest mini-moon, is expected to go into orbit of Earth for a couple of months from Sept. 29, 2024. Update, Oct. 9, 2024: A link to a map of asteroid 2024 PT5’s orbit around the sun ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Earth is getting a second moon! But it's only for about two months, and you won't be able to see it with the naked eye. The mini-moon, named "2024 PT5", was discovered back in ...

The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...