Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...
A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...
Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...
Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...
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 ...
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So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...
This artist's concept depicts the NISAR satellite in orbit over central and Northern California. - Indian Space Research Organization A first-of-its-kind satellite has launched to track nearly ...
Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...