Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes ...

The Earth has a second moon? Not exactly, though social media would have you believe it. Earth has only one true natural satellite – our 2,159-mile-wide moon located approximately 239,000 miles away.

Scientists confirm Earth doesn’t have a permanent second moon, only small quasi-satellites and 'minimoons' that briefly share its orbit. The idea that Earth might have a second moon has long ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The Earth will soon have a new companion in space, after NASA confirmed it will acquire a new moon- at least temporarily. The federal agency confirmed this week that the University of Hawaii ...

Astronomers from the Catalina Sky Survey yesterday announced they’d found a second natural satellite orbiting the Earth. It looks like our planet and its long-standing partner Luna have decided to ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- According to a new study, planet Earth is not just one planet. It is actually two planets. This finding comes from a group of researchers led by Edward Young at UCLA. According ...

An international team of scientists announced on Wednesday that they have discovered two new "super-Earth" planets just 100 light-years away. Both of them are significantly larger than our own planet ...