We all know and love the moon. We’re so assured that we only have one that we don’t even give it a specific name. It is the brightest object in the night sky, and amateur astronomers take great ...

We all know and love the moon. We’re so assured that we only have one that we don’t even give it a specific name. It’s just The Moon. But the moon is not the Earth’s only natural satellite. Here’s ...

Duncan Forgan, a research fellow at the University of St. Andrews, recently wrote in The Conversation about Earth's "second moon". While this is a sexy title that others have used in the past, it's ...

Our familiar, and only true, Moon -- the only photos of the 'second moon' are of a distant, blurry object Alan Copson/JAI/Corbis The Moon isn’t alone in the sky. Sure, we’ve launched hundreds of ...

WE all know and love the moon. We’re so assured that we only have one that we don’t even give it a specific name. It is the brightest object in the night sky, and amateur astronomers take great ...

Stepping stone to human mission to a near-Earth asteroid. (Courtesy: NASA) The Earth’s “second moon” is the target of an innovative concept for a space mission. The proposal – put forward by a ...

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Duncan is supported by the ECOGAL program, which is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant. He is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland, and a founding ...

The mini-moon study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science found asteroids from deep in the solar system have a tendency to get caught in Earth’s gravity pull. If proven accurate, the ...

The moon is the largest object floating through space around Earth, but it's not the only one. Actually, there are numerous rocky objects living in our inner solar system that occasionally pass by ...