A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our planet in a similar orbit for 60 years.

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

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

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Photographer Osama Fathi has produced a pair of breathtaking images showing the dramatic transformation of the moon during ...

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"You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers!" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

In a discovery widely praised as a breakthrough in star formation research, astronomers have detected an enormous, shimmering cloud of molecular hydrogen strikingly near the solar system. Eos is a ...

The Earth and moon viewed by Chang'e 5 from Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 in April 2021. Credit: CNSA/CLEP HELSINKI — The orbiter for China’s Chang’e-6 lunar far side sample return mission is now at the ...