According to NASA, a small asteroid named 2025 PN7 is what scientists are calling a “quasi-moon,” which is considered a rare ...

"With the Earth and quasi-moon taking turns passing each other, the quasi-moon appears to be moving around us," Ponterio said ...

Astronomers have identified 2025 PN7, a small, faint asteroid, as a quasi-moon that has been orbiting near Earth for ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

Despite the newcomer, Earth still has just one true moon. NASA says 2025 PN7 keeps its distance — about 4 million kilometers ...

The asteroid isn’t a second moon, instead it is a quasi-satellite that is trailing the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Unlike ...

As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the seafloor.

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 ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

Potentially the largest and brightest supermoon of 2025 will rise in early November. Here's how to view it in Illinois.