For about 4.5 billion years, our planet has circled the sun on a stable, rhythmic path. Each of Earth's orbits takes ...

In a surprising twist on our planet’s ancient history, scientists are now suggesting that Earth might once have had a ring ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

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 ...

Asteroids from the Earth pass by all the time but we are expecting a friendly visitor staying around for the next couple ...

A small asteroid may become a "mini-moon" of Earth's for a couple of months, according to some astronomers. But what makes ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

Asteroid PT5 was discovered on August 7 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System and was observed by a team in ...

2024 PT₅ will then swing past for a final goodbye on 9 January 2025, coming within 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) ...

After orbiting around the Earth for a few days, it will leave the planet’s neighbourhood “shortly afterwards”, until its next ...

A pair of asteroid dynamics researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria have found that a small ...

The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will do a 56-day horseshoe-shaped fly-by near Earth before it continues on it journey.