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Earth's Surprise Second Moon: What's Happening?
For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...
‘Forget everything you knew’: Scientists reveal the Moon may have been ‘captured, not created’
A new study suggests Earth’s Moon may have been “captured” from a binary system, challenging the long-held impact theory and ...
‘Bizarre’ Moon Around Uranus Could Suddenly Host Life — What To Know
A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...
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Scientists propose shocking new theory for origin of the Moon
For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...
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Time-Lapse Meteosat-11 Satellite Sees 'Upside-Down' Earth And Moon
A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon ...
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Jupiter's storms and its 'potato' moon Amalthea stun in new NASA Juno probe images
Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...
Launching mass from the moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies
Placing a mass driver on the moon has long been a dream of space exploration enthusiasts. It would open up so many ...
When the moon is directly overhead, a person's weight decreases: Why?
When the Moon is directly overhead, its gravitational pull slightly reduces a person's weight on Earth. This is because the ...