This rock star is ready for its extreme close-up. Chinese researchers have captured the first-ever close-up images of the ...

For years, a tiny space rock has been quietly following Earth on its journey around the Sun, hiding in plain sight as one of ...

This is the first image of a rare 'minimoon' that loops around the Earth like a dance partner.

For centuries, people believed that the Moon was Earth’s only natural satellite. While this remains true for permanent moons, ...

China’s Tianwen-2 has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, a tiny quasi-satellite of Earth, beginning a mission to collect samples and ...

Move over moon, Earth has a new partner and it’s a small asteroid named 2025 PN7, now officially recognized by NASA as a quasi-moon. Unlike the real moon, this space rock doesn’t orbit Earth directly.

Despite being called a "minimoon", Kamo'oalewa is not Earth's second moon. It is a rare type of asteroid known as a ...

People have been talking about Earth's second moon. Though NASA confirmed that a small asteroid named 2025 PN7 is officially a quasi-moon, it's not a real moon. Instead, it's a cosmic tag-along that’s ...

The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...

NASA has made it official: Earth has a second moon. Sort of. An asteroid called 2025 PN7 is trailing our planet’s path as a “quasi-moon,” meaning it isn’t orbiting Earth and will only serve as a ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit. Any thoughts that Earth is now going to be ...