How many moons does Earth have? The answer seems obvious: Earth has only one moon. It's even in the name: the moon. At first, Earth's moon needed no other name, because for millennia, we didn't know ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, a small asteroid that will shadow Earth’s orbit for more than a century before being pulled away by the sun’s gravity, according ...

E veryone knows Earth has one moon. That big, bright object in the night sky is the Moon with a capital M. But astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered a new quasi-moon. 2025 PN7 is not the first quasi-moon, nor the only out there right now. Has Earth acquired a second moon? Not exactly. Astronomers recently discovered a ...

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