Unlike the familiar Moon, 2025 PN7 does not orbit Earth. Instead, it travels around the Sun along a path that closely ...

Samples collected by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s far side have unveiled moon dust containing a rare pre-solar ...

A small asteroid named 2024 PN7 is moving close to Earth, sparking false claims about a second moon — here’s what scientists actually say.

Is Earth getting a second moon? "ChicagoLIVE" talks with Derek Buzasi, Senior Instructional Professor of Astronomy & ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...

The asteroid isn’t a second moon, instead it is a quasi-satellite that is trailing the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Unlike ...

Several celestial objects have been spotted over the years and deemed a "quasi-moon" by astronomers, including asteroid 2025 ...

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 ...

Was a new moon discovered? What is the name of the new moon? What is a Quasi-moon? Does the Earth have two moons? An expert ...

There has been a viral rumor going around on social media claiming that NASA has attested that Earth now features two moons. The rumor has spread rapidly on sites such as X (formerly Twitter), ...

PN7 has been a mysterious space traveler, shadowing our planet for decades undetected in our vast celestial world, until now.