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Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather familiar origin: Earth’s mini-moon might actually be a broken-off piece of our regular Moon.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit.
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NASA photographs the rare occurrence of the moon crossing the face of the Earth from a million miles awayThe images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...
It is thus only fitting for a goddess to be named for none other than the door hinge: Cardea. And now, thanks to Clay ...
En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by ...
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For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...
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Earth gave birth to Moon with a little outside help, new study surprisesThe study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.
THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim.
In February, the US company Lonestar plans to install a data center on the moon for the first time. What advantages the ...
The best views of the September 2025 total lunar eclipse will be in Asia and western Australia. According to Time and Date, a ...
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