In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

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

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

PT5 traced to lunar highlands; Apollo 14 rocks match Research reveals natural origin; trajectory rules out space debris ...

A small asteroid, referred to as Earth's temporary "mini-moon," could actually be a piece of the Moon that broke away ...

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 ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

Researchers studying 2024 PT5 have observed new data which hints that the rock originated from the Moon. They suspect that it was knocked off the lunar surface after a massive impact several thousands ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...