No, Earth will not have "two moons until 2083," but asteroid 2025 PN7 has joined Earth's orbital path, with the tiny fleet of space rocks set to trail Earth's orbit until 2083 before the sun pulls it ...

Over the past few days, an astronomical piece of space news has been circulating around the internet: NASA purportedly confirmed that Earth has acquired a second moon that will stay with us until 2083 ...

If you watch sci-fi movies, you’d think that flying a spaceship is just like driving a slightly more complicated car (or a Winnebago in Spaceballs). And George Lucas gave us those galactic battles ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft launched in the 1970s is expected to make its return to Earth sometime this weekend. The unmanned robotic spacecraft, Kosmos 482, originally set out to land on the scorching ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown quasi-moon that’s been shadowing Earth’s orbit for decades, undetected, and will likely remain there for a few decades more. The quasi-moon, named 2025 ...

Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary companions. These "quasi-moons" are small asteroids that enter into a kind ...

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...

Workers prepare Venera 4, a Soviet space probe, for its flight to Venus' atmosphere in 1967. Sovfoto / Universal Images Group via Getty Images In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

With every rocket we launch into the Earth's orbit we're trapping ourselves on our own planet. Wait, how could sending ...

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