Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...
Astronomers have identified 2025 PN7, a small, faint asteroid, as a quasi-moon that has been orbiting near Earth for ...
In fact, last year, a chunk of space rock, referred to as a "mini-moon," visited the Earth's orbit. The rock was dubbed 2024 ...
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The subject line of the email to KTLA 5 News was like many others purporting to have footage of UFOs: “Caught on video: Object flying across the sky.” The viewer, Michael, shared his location, ...
The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...
Nasa’s Webb telescope has found a new moon around Uranus. The tiny object is only about 10 kilometres wide and is the 29th addition to the family of moons around the planet. Scientists think it was ...
Early birds were treated to a cool sight in the sky the morning of Sept. 19. The waning crescent moon will appear nestled close to Venus and Regulus, one of the brightest stars in the constellation ...
A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...
NASA's Artemis II astronauts will embark on the first crewed U.S. mission to the moon in half a century. It could launch early in 2026.