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It’s a bad time to be a werewolf. NASA has just confirmed that for the next five-ish decades, Earth—and yes, that includes New York City—will have two moons.

Well… sorta.

The second moon isn’t exactly the same as our 4.5 billion year celestial companion. In fact, it’s not really a moon at all.

Astronomers at the Pan–STARRS observatory in Hawaii recently spotted something wild: an asteroid, now called 2025 PN7 , that’s been quietly shadowing Earth since the 1960s.

Scientists are calling it a “quasi-moon”—a cosmic companion that follows nearly the same orbit around the Sun as our planet, giving the illusion that it’s orbiting Earth itself.

Quasi-moons are part of a special category of space objects called Arjunas, that move in sync with our planet’s journey around the s

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