Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

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

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It was found in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, which can be seen in ...

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

As it spins around Earth, the moon is about to reach its closest point to the blue planet.

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...