Zoozve is an asteroid that, as described by its discoverers in a 2005 paper, has an orbit that "takes it quite far afield from Venus – it dives in towards the Sun, passing within the orbit of ...

The pink dot represents Zoozve's orbit around Venus, shown as a green shot, as the two travel around the sun, offscreen in the center-top. | Credit: Wikimedia Commons Cardea was up against six other ...

The next quasi-satellite in the solar system now has an official name. Cardea is a companion of the Earth and was discovered more than 20 years ago.

Meet Zoozve, the quasi-moon of Venus ... which makes it difficult to hold a moon in stable orbit. Venus’s supposed moonlessness is considered an ongoing mystery. But we do know that it has ...