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 ...

Dates can shift slightly for equinoxes depending on the year, but it's always around this time in September. The next vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere takes place on March 20, 2026, and will ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown quasi-moon that’s been shadowing Earth’s orbit for decades, undetected, and will likely remain there for a few decades more. The quasi-moon, named 2025 ...

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

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of an asteroid orbiting the sun alongside Earth, much like the potential new ...

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look everywhere all at once." On Wednesday (Aug. 13), NASA announced that the ...

September: Florida is another area where temperatures are uncertain. Above-normal temperatures favored for the first half of September, changing to equal chances of above, near, and below-normal ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...