The reason people might think Earth has a second moon is due to a celestial body named 2025 PN7 that was spotted in August by ...

Earth has welcomed a new temporary mini-moon, asteroid 2025 PN7, a 62-foot object now orbiting our planet for decades. This ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, a small asteroid that will shadow Earth’s orbit for ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

Every month, we hear about new "potentially hazardous" objects spotted in space. To identify these threats, astronomers rely on highly sensitive telescopes—some capable of "seeing in the dark." Thanks ...

Contrary to online rumors, Earth still only has one true moon, but astronomers have discovered a so-called 'quasi-moon.' Here ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day ...

Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, experts recently found the latest of the planet's quasi-moons; a small body that ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Viral speculation that earth was now home to a second moon has circulated social media over the past days, but astronomers ...