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Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered 'Quasi-Moon,' a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun
Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...
The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...
NASA is preparing for the Artemis II mission, aiming to launch humans beyond low-Earth orbit in early 2026, after over five ...
Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...
Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...
Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.
In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery ...
Artemis III is planned for 2027. If it stays on schedule, it will be the mission that puts humans back on the moon for the first time in 55 years. The crew plans to touch down in one of 13 planned ...
The first Artemis mission lasted 25 days and saw the launch of an uncrewed spacecraft in November 2022. It saw a spacecraft ...
As of Saturday, Sept. 20, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is only 2% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's ...
NASA is planning an ambitious new mission that could send astronauts around the Moon sooner than expected.As per the recent ...
NASA has said it intends to send four astronauts on a ten-day journey around the Moon in early 2026, marking the first crewed ...
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