THAT’s NO MOON - Earth doesn’t just have one moon; sometimes, it has a companion satellite or “mini-moon.” Discovered on ...
Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in ...
Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods ...
Something called a "quasi-moon" was discovered in August, and now many are wondering if we should count our new neighbor as a ...
The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...
Unlike the Moon, which is gravitationally bound to our planet, 2025 PN7 shares an orbit around the Sun that closely mirrors ...
Unlike the moon with which we are familiar, which is 2,159 miles wide and located about 239,000 miles away, according to NASA ...
This quasi-moon is expected to remain in its current near-Earth orbit for about another 60 years before the gravitational tug ...
In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...
Scientists explain that quasi-moons like PN7 share the same orbital period as Earth, circling the Sun in roughly one year, ...
Asteroid 2025 PN7, which was recently discovered, turns out to be a quasi-moon, an object that orbits close to the Earth. It ...