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Live Science on MSNNew 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades
Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's ...
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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Scientists find quasi-moon orbiting the Earth for the last 60 years—and it's not the first one
Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary ...
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IFLScience on MSNEarth Has A New Quasi-Moon – And It Has Probably Been Around For Decades
The total number of quasi-satellites of our planet has gone up by one. There are now 8 small asteroids going around the Sun ...
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The Daily Galaxy on MSNAstronomers Find A New ‘Moon’ That’s Been Following Earth Since the 1960s
A team of astronomers has confirmed the presence of a new quasi-moon, named 2025 PN7, which has been following Earth’s orbit undetected for over 60 years. The discovery, published in the Research ...
As it spins around Earth, the moon is about to reach its closest point to the blue planet.
"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers away." Half a dozen fragments of the moon may briefly orbit Earth at any ...
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Live Science on MSNThe world's first view of Earth from the moon, taken 59 years ago — Space photo of the week
On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...
A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth and is headed toward the moon. It's the latest step in NASA's plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface ...
The moon looks bigger in the night sky because it is in perigee, or the point where the moon reaches its closest point to ...
NASA has led in low Earth orbit for 25 years and counting. Now, as we prepare for deorbiting the International Space Station in 2030, we’re calling on our commercial space partners to maintain ...
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