The Earth Is Getting a Mini-Moon—but Only for About a Month
On August 7, 2024, NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected a space object that, for a little more than a month, will become a mini-moon of Earth. Named 2024 PT5, the rock is only 33 meters long and will form a kind of horseshoe-like orbit around Earth from September 29 to November 5 before leaving Earth’s orbit.
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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Rejoice! Spacecraft Confirms That Earth Is a Habitable PlanetThe European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe has spotted a habitable planet roughly one astronomical ...
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'Space for Birds': Astronaut Roberta Bondar captures avian habitats from Earth, in air and on orbit in new book (interview)Roberta Bondar knew that she would not be able to hear birds, let alone seen them from space, but when she really thought ...
New Starlink satellites’ radiation leaks are 30 times as large as those emitted by older satellites, scientists discover ...
The weekend trip was a success for Space Perspective, the company that already has more than 1,800 people waiting for their ...
In 2011, a ghostly depression, known as "the mitten," appeared on the surface of and ice sheet in Greenland after the ...
The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...
A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth ...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were ...
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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