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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.
An uncrewed spacecraft just snapped an iconic portrait of the blue marble from space. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar ...
A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling ...
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...
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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 ...
A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...
Researchers have unveiled new findings that reshape our understanding of the Moon's formation and Earth's early hydration.
On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...
A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered ...
A team of engineers is advancing space innovation by developing a groundbreaking machine to produce oxygen on the moon. The ...
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