A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth
A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...
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 ...
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Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon
2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...
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Strange 'quasi-moon' of Earth gets named Cardea, after goddess of door hinges
It is thus only fitting for a goddess to be named for none other than the door hinge: Cardea. And now, thanks to Clay ...
A moon-bound spacecraft snaps footage of Earth eclipsing the sun
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
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NASA photographs the rare occurrence of the moon crossing the face of the Earth from a million miles away
The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...
Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
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NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon
The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...
Earth's temporary moon might have come from the moon
A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our moon. Its ...
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Earth gave birth to Moon with a little outside help, new study surprises
The study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.
Is the moon a chunk ejected from Earth? Study sheds light on moon formation, origin of water on Earth
A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered ...
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The moon: A chunk ejected from Earth?
A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory was that the Moon was the result of a collision between the early ...