NEW YORK — Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, ...

Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our planet for decades before slipping back into deep space. NASA and independent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That's no moon, it's an asteroid. Earth is set to have a visitor in its orbit in the form of a "mini-moon" also known as asteroid ...

Astronomers are looking ahead to the possibility of Earth capturing its next “mini moon,” a temporary natural satellite that occasionally gets caught in our planet’s orbit. While mini moons are small ...