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 ...

In August 2025, Pan-STARRS Observatory made a breakthrough discovery by detecting a quasi-moon in Earth's orbit.

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 ...

Later this month, the earth will briefly gain a new moon. An asteroid called 2024 PT5 will be making a horseshoe-shaped partial orbit around Earth before it breaks free of our planet's gravitational ...

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

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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 ...

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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 ...