Moon on the Move: Surprising New Ridges Reveal Recent Activity
A new study has uncovered evidence that the moon is still geologically active, contradicting previous beliefs that its ...
Remember the 'mini-moon' last year? Study finds it was likely just a chunk of the actual moon
A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...
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Earth Had a Tiny Second Moon for a Few Months. It Might Be A Chunk of the Moon
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...
Small, temporary 'mini-moon' detected by astronomers, invisible to naked eye
Earth will soon be gaining a "mini-moon" but it's only temporary, officials say. The small asteroid is called "2024 PT5” and ...
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How the Apollo Program Changed Our Understanding of What the Moon Even Is
Data from the seismographs the astronauts installed on the surface and from measurements of the Moon’s gravity field made in orbit showed that it had only a very small iron core, if it has one ...
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Asteroid impact on moon blasted two grand canyons in 10 minutes
Close to the moon's south pole are two canyons each comparable in size to the Grand Canyon that were born in a much different process. This impact unleashed about 130 times the energy of the ...
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Is About To Take One Small Step ... To Get Us Back To The Moon
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April ... Decades of research and development into small satellites, or SmallSats, opened the ...
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A Full Moon, a Bold Mars and a New Comet Brighten January’s Skies
According to a chart published by the International Occultation Timing Association, Mars will disappear behind the moon on Monday at 6:21 p.m. in Seattle, 9:16 p.m. in Washington, D.C., and 9:21 p ...