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Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 didn't stick around for Thanksgiving, but don't be sad. It will be back... but will it ever be a second ...

After a two-month visit, 2024 PT5 is ready to continue its cosmic journey—but it will be back in a few decades.

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the ...

Earth will say goodbye to an asteroid that has acted as a mini moon for the past two months. But astronomers say it will ...

The mini moon, known as 2024 PT5, is quite possibly a boulder blasted off the moon by a crater-forming asteroid ...

For about two months, Earth had a temporary second moon from an asteroid that scientists believe originated from our only ...

Earth is about to bid farewell to its temporary celestial companion as asteroid 2024 PT5 prepares to depart our orbit on ...

"Earth can regularly capture asteroids from the Near-Earth object (NEO) population and pull them into orbit, making them mini-moons," the team explained a paper in September. "Sometimes, these ...