As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth and the moon
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...
How digital twins of Earth are spinning up safer decisions for the planet
Typhoon Chanthu lashed East Asia in 2021. At one point, winds reached 170 mph, making it one of the strongest storms of the ...
Plane snaps rare footage of a spacecraft reentering Earth from space
The European Space Agency sent a plane to capture footage of the first of four Cluster mission satellites reentering Earth's ...
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Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
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A New Mini-Moon Is Being Captured by Planet Earth
But very rarely, an asteroid is captured by Earth’s gravity and pirouettes around the planet, becoming, in effect, a moon — albeit an ephemeral one. A space rock spotted recently with NASA ...
There Might Be More Than One Way to Make a Planet
Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...
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Earth's new 'mini-moon' will orbit our planet for the next 2 months
The space rock will make one complete orbit of our planet between Sept. 29 and Nov. 25 before escaping Earth's gravity. Yet despite this 57-day close flyby of our planet, the asteroid will be hard ...
NASA JPL And Artists Team Up To Imagine Humanity’s Future Beyond Earth
At PST Art, a huge Southern California event where art and science collide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is inviting ...
Earth May Have Once Had a Ring Like Saturn
The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had ...
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Earth will get another moon this month — but not for long!
This month, Earth will grab itself a second moon in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5. Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which has accompanied our planet for around 4 billion years ...
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Tiny black holes zipping past Mars could finally confirm that dark matter is real
Physicists are still hot on the trail of a substance that could change everything: dark matter in the form of primordial ...
NASA astronaut and UC Davis alum Tracy C. Dyson speaks with KCRA 3 live from ISS
Tracy C. Dyson is from Arcadia and earned a doctorate in chemistry at UC Davis in 1997. The Expedition 71 flight engineer is on the ISS as part of her third mission to space. She previously was a ...