Earth, Moon
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.
Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Slows Down
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A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in ...
These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...
Carbon removal schemes involving enhanced rock weathering should consider whether the rocks they use are lighter or darker ...
Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...
To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...
Digital Camera World on MSN1d
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 ...
Security camera footage posted on the social media platform Sina Weibo captured the scene of two family members reacting to ...
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