Identified by astronomers in August 2024 near Earth, a small space rock is likely a fragment of the moon that broke off ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

29 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which follows a similar orbital path around the sun as the Earth. Now, as the asteroid is set to depart from view, evidence is suggesting it was visiting its ...

The asteroid came from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is a group of asteroids 93 million miles away that follow Earth-like ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...

A small asteroid named 2024 PT5, once hailed as Earth's temporary second moon, might have originated from our very own Moon.

It eventually departed—pulled away by the Sun's stronger gravity—to return to its home in the Arjuna asteroid belt. The secondary asteroid belt orbits the Sun in a path very similar to Earth's ...

This small asteroid, part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, will only remain in Earth’s orbit until November 25, 2024, before continuing its journey around the sun. Though not visible to the average ...

De la Fuente Marcos’ paper in September suggested that the object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun similar to Earth’s orbit.