Does the Earth actually have two moons?

For decades, the Earth has had a companion — or, depending if you see it as more of an ominous presence, a stalker — hovering without most people realizing.

Following reports of Earth’s supposed second moon, experts have discovered a number of celestial objects over the years which they have called “quasi-moons.”

Scientists at the Pan-STARRS observatory at the University of Hawaii first discovered in August, according to a recent study recently published in Research Notes of the AAS.

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The quasi-moons are actually small asteroids that “enter into a kind of resonance with Earth’s orbit, although they aren’t technically orbiting Earth,” the study authors noted.

The new quasi-moon, which they named “2025 PN7,” was among a small gro