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What If the Moon Collided With Earth?
Imagine a scenario where the Moon, our constant companion in the night sky, begins a deadly trajectory toward Earth. The ...
As night fell and a full moon hung between the fragmented clouds, citizen Xiao Zhang suddenly had a whimsical thought: what if the moon were to 'crack' like a shattered porcelain bowl? Would those ...
Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...
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The Moon Used to Be Much Closer to Earth. It’s Drifting 1.5 Inches Farther From Earth Every Year and It’s Slowly Making Our Days Longer
The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...
A few nights ago, while taking a walk, I looked up and saw the Moon particularly round, with a few wispy clouds drifting nearby. Suddenly, a silly thought popped into my head—what if the Moon suddenly ...
Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new ...
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The world's first view of Earth from the moon, taken 59 years ago — Space photo of the week
On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...
A rogue rocket booster could collide with the moon in the next few weeks, according to space experts, an event that could leave a crater on the far side of the moon. The SpaceX Falcon rocket stage was ...
On September 7, the moon will turn a coppery red during an 82-minute eclipse, one of the most widely seen celestial shows of the decade. A coppery moon glows above Waterton Lakes National Park in ...
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