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Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...
It is widely believed that the moon formed during a collision between Earth and a small planet known as Theia.
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This week see many special celestial sights, from a bright comet and a solar eclipse to a bright Venus and the possibility of ...
Rather than forming from an ancient collision between Earth and another planet, the moon may have been snatched from another ...
Nasa is doing just that: launching a spacecraft on October 10 to Europa, a moon of Jupiter holding twice the water of all ...
Coming up next week, on october 10th, spacex's falcon heavy will be lifting off from cape canaveral with one of nasa's ...