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Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered ‘Quasi-Moon,’ a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...
Earth.com

Planets are not born in order, but in warped chaos

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

Scientists capture a newborn planet forming on camera for the first time

X, an advanced adaptive optics system on the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope in Chile. The instrument detects hydrogen-alpha (Hα ...
Space.com

Could new comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) become visible to the naked eye in October? Here's what we know

Daniel W.E. Green at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, suggests that comet SWAN will hover near magnitude of +6, ...