For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...
The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get ...
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A ‘Quasi-Moon’ Has Been Quietly Orbiting With Earth for 60 Years — Astronomers Just Confirmed It
A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...
2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It ...
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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 ...
U.S. scientists confirm Earth's new quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, sharing our orbit for 60 more years. Learn how quasi-moons work and ...
As of Tuesday, Sept. 30, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous, and according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, 56% of its surface ...
The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away from our planet in an orbit around the sun. When you purchase through links ...
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The Moon is getting slightly farther away from the Earth each year − a physicist explains why
So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance our understanding of ...
The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will ...
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