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.

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 ...

The gleaming moon hanging in our sky has been the subject of countless songs, poems, myths, and legends. But in reality, what would happen if the Earth suddenly lost the moon? Quite a few things, ...

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