Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth's orbit and circled above our heads for almost two months before departing. Scientists usually track such asteroids ...
The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...
NASA has made it official: Earth has a second moon. Sort of. An asteroid called 2025 PN7 is trailing our planet’s path as a “quasi-moon,” meaning it isn’t orbiting Earth and will only serve as a ...
2025 PN7 is a small, dim asteroid that appears to orbit Earth, according to EarthSky. Believed to be a piece of the moon that ...