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The Venus exploration spacecraft Zond 1, launched by the Soviet Union on April 2, 1964. (Image credit: Wikimedia) Is it possible that over the past 4.5 billion years of the Earth’s history, alien civilizations visited the solar System and installed monitors in the “baby room” of its habitable zone to follow the evolution of terrestrial life? Such monitors could have …

There’s a new moon in town — sort of.  The much-discussed 2025 PN7, dubbed Earth’s “second moon,” is officially a quasi-moon, according to NASA, which confirmed the designation this week.  First spotted by researchers over the summer, the newly discovered rock isn’t a true moon but rather an asteroid that travels around the sun in near-lockstep with Earth — making …