The image was taken by GOES-19, the newest in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series operated by NOAA.

PN7 has been a mysterious space traveler, shadowing our planet for decades undetected in our vast celestial world, until now.

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

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

Scientists have discovered asteroid 2025 PN7, a celestial body now identified as a quasi-satellite. This asteroid will orbit ...

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 ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

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 ...

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

The discovery of a new asteroid in the Earth's orbit around the sun has led to chatter that it's a second moon.

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Asteroid 2025 PN7, which was recently discovered, turns out to be a quasi-moon, an object that orbits close to the Earth. It ...