Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...

Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

Earth has a hidden moon that has been sharing its orbit since the 1960s, researchers claim A new astronomical body has been ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

Astronomers have recently discovered a new quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, a tiny asteroid that has likely been near Earth for ...

The total number of quasi-satellites of our planet has gone up by one. There are now 8 small asteroids going around the Sun ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. Around January 2 or 3, ...