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It Seems Absurd, But You Could Line Up Every Planet In The Solar System Between Earth And The Moon
Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with nothing but our eyes. Yet, that 238,855-mile gap between Earth and its lunar ...
2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and is 11 meters in diameter (artist's impression shows a generic asteroid close to Earth). After just under two months in orbit, it's time to say goodbye to an ...
The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...
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