We Just Found Something Near the MOON And NASA Isn’t Denying It

We Just Found Something Near the MOON And NASA Isn’t Denying It

On August 29, 2025, astronomers at Hawaii's Pan-STARRS observatory made a startling discovery: an object roughly the size of a small office building had been orbiting near Earth for sixty years without anyone noticing. Designated 2025 PN7, this "quasi-moon" measures between 62 and 98 feet across and swings within 186,000 miles of our planet at its closest approach—roughly the same distance as the Moon itself.

What makes this discovery remarkable isn't just that we missed it for six decades. It's that NASA confirmed the finding without hesitation, adding the object to their databases and acknowledging what researchers had found. No dismissal. No hedging. Just straightforward confirmation that yes, something has been traveling alongside Earth since before the Moon landing.

But here's where the story gets stranger. Scientists believe 2025 PN7 may actually be a fragment of the Moon itself, blasted into space by an ancient asteroid impact. It's not alone—researchers have identified at least seven quasi-satellites near Earth, and some, like the asteroid Kamo'oalewa discovered in 2016, show spectral signatures that match weathered lunar soil almost exactly.

The Giordano Bruno crater on the Moon's far side, estimated to be about 4 million years old, is now believed to be the source of Kamo'oalewa. If confirmed, it would mean pieces of the Moon have been orbiting near Earth since before our earliest human ancestors walked upright.

2025 PN7 will remain in its current orbit for approximately another 60 years before gravitational forces pull it into a "horseshoe orbit" that takes it as far as 185 million miles from Earth. But don't worry—scientists confirm it poses no threat to our planet.

The question isn't whether these objects exist. NASA has confirmed they do. The question is: how many more are out there, and what can they tell us about the violent history of our cosmic neighborhood?

SOURCES & REFERENCES:

• CNN - "Meet 2025 PN7, Earth's unseen quasi-moon companion for about 60 years" (September 16, 2025) https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/scienc...
• BBC Science Focus - "Astronomers discover hidden 'moon' shadowing Earth" (October 25, 2025) https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/qua...
• Live Science - "New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades" (September 12, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/space/ast...
• Earth.com - "NASA confirms Earth has a new 'mini moon' that will accompany us for the next 50 years" (November 2025) https://www.earth.com/news/nasa-confi...
• Northeastern University - "Experts: Earth Could Have Six More 'Quasi-Moons' Like 2025 PN7" (October 22, 2025) https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/10...
Kamo'oalewa Lunar Origin:
• Nature Astronomy - Computer model supports theory of asteroid Kamo'oalewa as lunar ejecta (April 2024) https://phys.org/news/2024-04-theory-...
• University of Arizona - "Near-Earth asteroid was blasted from a crater on the moon, study finds" (2024) https://news.arizona.edu/news/near-ea...
• Communications Earth & Environment - "Lunar ejecta origin of near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa is compatible with rare orbital pathways" (October 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4324...
China Tianwen-2 Mission: • SpaceNews - "China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid" (May 28, 2025) https://spacenews.com/china-launches-...
• CNN - "China's Tianwen-2 mission launches to explore asteroid that may be a lunar fragment" (May 28, 2025) https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/28/sc...
• Sky & Telescope - "China Launches Tianwen 2 Asteroid Sample Return Mission" (May 29, 2025) https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy...
NASA & Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: • NASA - "NASA's LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past South Korea's Danuri Moon Orbiter" (April 2024) https://www.nasa.gov/missions/lro/nas...
• NASA Science - "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter" https://science.nasa.gov/mission/lro/
Apollo Mission Reports: • Space.com - "'Music' Heard by Apollo 10 Astronauts at the Moon Not from Aliens" (February 2016) https://www.space.com/32007-alien-moo...
2024 PT5 Lunar Origin Confirmation:
• The Astrophysical Journal Letters - "On the Lunar Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 PT5" (January 2025)

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