Scientists out of the Pan-STARRs observatory in Hawaii discovered the new quasi-moon on Aug. 29, according to CNN and ABC ...

It sounds like a sci-fi plot, but it’s a cold, hard scientific fact: our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon, is slowly moving ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...

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 ...

Technically, it's not a real moon. It's what scientists call a quasi-moon—a space rock that doesn't orbit Earth directly but ...

A camera aboard India’s Aditya-L1 spacecraft captured the Earth and moon. The spacecraft launched atop a PSLV rocket. Credit: ...

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

The discovery of quasi-moon PN7 has caused a stir on social media. A University of Oregon astronomy professor explains. what ...

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

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