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Earth captures a new mini-moon
What to know about Earth's latest mini-moon, including how it got here, when it leaves
October's full moon will have some company this month now that a mini-moon is in Earth's orbit. Here's what you should know about the second moon.
Earth's new mini-moon belongs to a group of promising targets for future asteroid miners trying to send humans on deep-space missions
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, that's a prime opportunity.
Earth's Mini-Moon Is Arriving Today. What to Know About Our Temporary Second Moon
Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August. The researchers who found it published a nonpeer-reviewed study about the asteroid.
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NASA's instruments capture sharpest image of Earth's radiation belts
Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a ...
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NASA captured the clearest ever images of Earth’s radiation belt
NASA has released the clearest images ever compiled of Earth’s magnetosphere radiation belt. But the spacecraft that ...
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How to see Comet A3, which could be the best comet in a decade. Neanderthals walked the Earth last time it flew by.
Comet A3 hasn't been past Earth since the Neanderthals. It'll be visible across the Northern Hemisphere in October; here's ...
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Scientists find plausible geological setting that may have sparked life on Earth
Researchers have discovered a plausible evolutionary setting in which nucleic acids—the fundamental genetic building blocks ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Spotted 'Non-Natural' Object Moving Towards Earth?
The rumor claimed that JWST observed the object changing its trajectory, implying it was some sort of spaceship.
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An asteroid known as a 'mini-moon' will join Earth's orbit for 2 months starting Sunday
A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...
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Earth Is Getting a New ‘Mini Moon’ for the Next Two Months, Astronomers Say
A roughly 33-foot-long asteroid called 2024 PT5 will chart a horseshoe-like path around our planet Shi En Kim Reporter In ...
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Scientists just discovered why Earth’s atmosphere is leaking
It turns out the mysterious force is a previously undiscovered global electric field. First came the surprising discovery ...
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'Sub-Earth' exoplanet discovered around the closest solo star to us
Earth" planet orbiting the closest solo star to the solar system, Barnard's star, that has a year lasting just three Earth ...
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