The idea that Earth might have a second moon has long fascinated astronomers and captivated online audiences, with viral posts and speculative blogs fuelling claims of a mysterious celestial companion ...

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.

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...