Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our planet for decades before slipping back into deep space. NASA and independent ...

Astronomers have re-discovered a temporary moon that has joined Earth’s orbit. The mini-moon/asteroid is named 2025 PN7. It’s about 62 feet in diameter and will eventually return to its other orbital ...

Among other recent astronomical headlines, unusual online chatter is surrounding a "second moon" orbiting Earth, but the buzz doesn't describe the discovery quite right. Earth has only one true ...

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet unseen by telescopes for about 60 years, according to new research.Related video ...

Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...