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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 world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...
En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by ...
A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...
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 ...
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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.
Researchers have unveiled new findings that reshape our understanding of the Moon's formation and Earth's early hydration.
A team of engineers is advancing space innovation by developing a groundbreaking machine to produce oxygen on the moon. The ...
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