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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, ...
Temporary ‘Mini-Moon’ Will Begin Orbit Around Earth Next Week: What To Know
Earth will temporarily get a second moon next week when a tiny asteroid begins its two month orbit around the planet, though ...
Earth about to pull tiny space rock into its orbit as temporary ‘mini moon’, scientists say
It is expected to follow a horseshoe-type orbit to become a “mini-moon” of Earth on 29 September only to return to a path ...
What you need to know about Earth’s new, temporary mini-moon
Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...
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Earth will get another moon this month — but not for long!
"You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers!" ...
A record-setting 19 people are in orbit around Earth at the same time
With the arrival of three people to the International Space Station on Wednesday – NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos ...
Mannequins flew around the moon on a path astronauts could soon take. Scientists just revealed how they fared
Detectors inside Artemis I’s Orion capsule show how much radiation exposure its mannequins underwent and how effective a ...
Bus-size asteroid being sucked toward Earth will become ‘temporary mini-moon’
The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...
Here's why astronauts age slower than the rest of us here on Earth
Astronauts on the International Space Station age slightly slower than the rest of us on Earth due to time-dilation effects.
China’s secretive space plane has returned to Earth. Its mission? Unknown
A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth ...
Earth will have a 'mini-moon' for nearly 2 months, researchers say. Here's what that means.
For nearly two months this year, Earth’s moon will have company — a second moon. Technically, it isn’t a second moon, but ...
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Earth will get another moon this month — but not for long!
"It will not follow a full orbit around Earth. "You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers." Breaking space news ...