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The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's moon cluster together ... our planet and the sun, heralding the end ...

Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...

A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather ...

The secondary asteroid belt orbits the Sun in a path very similar to Earth's orbit. During its recent mini-moon stint, scientists studied the 2024 PT5 from Earth. Based on the cosmic object's ...

the “mini-moon” wasn’t expected to stick around. The space rock will return to its usual home in the Arjuna asteroid belt after coming under the stronger tug of the sun’s gravity.

pulled away by the sun’s gravity. Though its visit was brief, this small space rock—dubbed a “mini moon” by many—has had quite a few eyes on it as it acted as a second moon for our planet.

overcome by the stronger pull of the Sun's gravity. Even though the mini-moon was only 3.5 million km away from Earth, it was not visible to the naked eye due to its small size and dim brightness.

Planet Earth is bidding farewell to a "mini moon," a harmless asteroid named 2024 PT5, which has been trailing Earth for two months and will leave on Monday, drawn away by the sun’s stronger ...

first identified the asteroid's "mini moon behaviour". It is expected to peel away from the Earth on Monday as it is overcome by the stronger pull of the sun's gravity. It will not reappear again ...