Earth has adopted a new(ish) traveling companion. It’s a tiny asteroid with quasi-moon status, named 2025 PN7 by astronomers. Not to be mistaken with a mini-moon, the celestial object follows an orbit ...

Viral speculation that earth was now home to a second moon has circulated social media over the past days, but astronomers are keen to point out that reality is more complicated but no less compelling ...

NASA says America’s push back to the Moon is accelerating, with Artemis II poised to launch a new era of U.S. space leadership.

This new quasi-moon is an Arjuna asteroid — one of a cluster of more than 100 small bodies with orbits almost identical to Earth’s. These asteroids move around the Sun in almost the same orbit as ...

Artemis II Will Head to the Moon: All the Details About NASA's Historic Mission ...

To win the superpower race to the Moon, the U.S. could launch a super-speed crusade to develop a lander that beats Chinese taikonauts to the lunar surface. Shown here is Lockheed's leading-edge Orion ...

A rare astronomical event will occur on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, as a new moon reaches its farthest distance from Earth until 2043. Occurring four hours before the moon reaches its new phase at 1:47 a ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit. Any thoughts that Earth is now going to be ...

When is the next new moon? The next new moon occurs on Feb. 17 at 7:01 a.m. (EST) (1201 GMT). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing ...

2026 is set to deliver historic moon missions, groundbreaking commercial space stations and powerful new space telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...