In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

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 ...

Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in quiet company with our planet for decades, pacing our planet in nearly ...

The object is known as 2025 SC79, and it is 700 meters (2,297 feet) across. It goes around the Sun every 128 days, and it ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 PN7, a tiny 'quasi-moon' that has been shadowing Earth in near-synchronised orbit ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day ...

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

Unlike the moon with which we are familiar, which is 2,159 miles wide and located about 239,000 miles away, according to NASA ...

Astronomers have discovered a new quasi-moon of Earth, Arjuna 2025 PN7. The asteroid belongs to a family that shares Earth's ...