Astronomers discover new quasi-moon orbiting the Earth

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...
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Earth Has A New Quasi-Moon – And It Has Probably Been Around For Decades

The region where the gravitational influence of Earth is the dominant force, is called the Hill Sphere. This extends up to ...
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Finding another Earth: CU Boulder’s role in the search for habitable planets

Kevin France, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...
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New Study Says Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has A 4% Chance Of Hitting The Moon

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been on the radar of astrologers for some time. In the past, it was believed that this asteroid had a ...
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Moon's surface can make water thanks to solar wind, NASA experiment confirms

What just happened? For decades, scientists have puzzled over the origin of water on the Moon, a resource that could prove vital for future lunar exploration. Since the 1960s, a leading hypothesis has ...
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin mimics the moon's gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home. Blue Origin launched the 29 lunar technology experiments to the edge of space from ...