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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Comet Nishimura's Path Around The Sun In Orbit Animation
There are many famous mysteries from the Middle Ages that have kept us guessing. Such as the fate of King Edward II and the ...
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Imagine Dragons 'Starfield' video game anthem will beam to Earth from the moon
"Children of the Sky" will be beamed back to Earth as part of the upcoming Intuitive Machines IM-2 moon lander mission.
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Blue Ghost moon lander sees Earth as a 'blue marble' from orbit (photo)
Blue Ghost was designed to operate on the surface of the moon for one lunar day, or about two Earth weeks. Then, the sun will set on the moon and the lander's batteries will deplete within a few ...
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Terrifying animation reveals the projected path of the 'city-destroying' asteroid heading towards Earth - as scientists warn the MOON could also be in the firing line
A terrifying new animation ... Earth isn't the only object in the firing line. According to Dr David Rankin, operations engineer for the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, the moon ...
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually ... the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...
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See February’s full snow moon and the last of the planetary parade
In 2025, there will be two partial solar eclipses. A partial solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the sun and Earth, but none of the celestial bodies are perfectly aligned, according ...
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Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...
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Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
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 ...