The 6%-lit waxing crescent moon will be visible roughly 5 degrees above the horizon as the sun sets on Oct. 23, with Mercury ...

This quasi-moon is expected to remain in its current near-Earth orbit for about another 60 years before the gravitational tug ...

Meet 2025 PN7, Earth’s newest quasi-moon An illustration of the inner solar system, showing the orbits of the planets and the ...

Unlike the moon with which we are familiar, which is 2,159 miles wide and located about 239,000 miles away, according to NASA ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued ...

No, the Earth does not have two moons, stressed Dr Alfredo Carpineti, a science writer for IFLScience. Dr Carpineti, the ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon, discovered extremely rare water-rich ...

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

NASA has confirmed that Earth has a second moon, 2025 PN7, a small asteroid co-orbiting with our planet until 2083.