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 ...

Billions of years ago a planet called Theia collided with Earth in a massive impact. This film explores how the crash shaped ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth.