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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 study explains that 2025 PN7 is currently in a 1:1 resonance with Earth, meaning it takes the same time to orbit the Sun ...
The reason people might think Earth has a second moon is due to a celestial body named 2025 PN7 that was spotted in August by ...
Spotted on August 2, 2025, by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii, the 50-to-100-foot-wide (15-to-30-meter-wide) space rock ...
Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without ...
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 ...
Earth has gained a new cosmic companion, a small asteroid named 2025 PN7, which will accompany our planet for the next half-century. This intriguing celestial body, often referred to as a 'mini-moon,' ...
Scientists confirm Earth's so-called 'second moon' is just a small, temporary quasi-satellite with no real impact, debunking ...
Astronomers observe for the first time the actual motion of spirals in a protoplanetary disk, revealing gravitational ...
New satellite data show Earth’s magnetic field changing fast, with a growing weak spot over the South Atlantic.
In my most recent article for Scientific American, I may have lied to you. In my defense, I didn’t so much lie as maybe oversimplify a tiny bit. I wrote that because of the effects of the tidal force ...
By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...