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

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

PT5 will orbit Earth from September 29 to November 25, before breaking free from the planet's gravitational pull.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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