As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.
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 ...
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How Did Mars Get Its Moons?
Mars has two moons, but they're not quite like Earth's moon. That's raised a lot of questions about where they're from, ...
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Why Earth’s New “Second Moon” Is Really a Quasi-Moon
Viral speculation that earth was now home to a second moon has circulated social media over the past days, but astronomers ...
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 ...
The Asteroid 2025 PN7 will orbit near the Earth as a quasi-moon until 2083, when it will drift away at high speed after ...
The mini-moon/asteroid will only be joining Earth's orbit temporarily before it returns to its other orbital path.
Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet ...
Astronomers claim that this space rock has been performing a complicated orbital dance around Earth since the 1960s and will ...
The 2025 PN7 is Earth's newly confirmed quasi-moon, a tiny asteroid (approx. 19m wide) that orbits the Sun in sync with our ...
A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of ...
Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...
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