NASA confirmed this week that the rock discovered by the University of Hawaii is the small asteroid 2025 PN7, which astronomers have confirmed as a quasi-moon- a rare type of celestial body ...

This quasi-moon is expected to remain in its current near-Earth orbit for about another 60 years before the gravitational tug ...

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 ...

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...

This article originally published at Earth just got a new companion in space. It's sticking around for 60 years.. A one-way ...

Our planet does have a new travel buddy in the form of a tiny quasi-moon that will be with us for another 60 years.

Astronomers have confirmed a small asteroid, named 2025 PN7, has been orbiting the Sun alongside Earth for over sixty years.

The small asteroid, officially named 2025 PN7, will circle near our planet for the next six decades, creating the illusion ...

A team of astronomers led by Paulo Cortes, a scientist with the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy ...