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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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 ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

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Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...

On September 14, 1959, the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the Moon. The mission, ...

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“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...