2025 PN7 is a small, dim asteroid that appears to orbit Earth, according to EarthSky. Believed to be a piece of the moon that ...
As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.
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 ...
The discovery of quasi-moon PN7 has caused a stir on social media. A University of Oregon astronomy professor explains. what ...
A newly identified “quasi-moon” is being described as a second moon in Earth’s orbit, and it could stay there for decades.
No, the Earth does not have two moons, stressed Dr Alfredo Carpineti, a science writer for IFLScience. Dr Carpineti, the ...
Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.
The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...