It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets, including one last giant impact that threw enough rock, gas, and dust into space to form the ...

Earth's "second moon" won't be sticking around for Thanksgiving, but just as many of us will on Thursday (Nov. 28), it seems ...

While it is expected that the second moon will shoot out on the day of Thanksgiving, it is expected that it will not be ...

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

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

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

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

Prior to the Apollo mission research there were three theories about how the Moon formed. The evidence returned from these missions gave us today's most widely accepted theory. Capture theory suggests ...

Because the Moon is both so rare and so important, scientists want to know how it got here. Its origins could shed light on our own story, and help us gauge the likelihood of how often such ...

The origins of the Moon have long been a subject of scientific debate, but recent research offers new insights into its formation. The prevailing theory suggests that around 4.5 billion years ago ...