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SURPRISE: Earth has two moons
Things started out with a hot and heavy crash, and the two of you get all tangled up with one anoth…
Rafi Letzter
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Length of an earth day is getting longer every year, says study
Have you ever felt that if you had just a little more time you could have gotten everything done? W…
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A chunk of SpaceX rocket that has drifted through space for years is on a collision course with the moon
Astronomers tracking space junk predict it will crash into the moon in March, making it potentially…
Marianne Guenot
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11 Apollo movies and documentaries to watch on the moon landing's 50th anniversary
That moon landing has made for great cinema ever since. Nobody has been back to the moon since the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth has a mysterious second moon - here's what we know about it
The object, called asteroid 2016 HO3, was first spotted by NASA this April and follows Earth in a l…
Skye Gould,Rafi Letzter
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The Moon Is Going To Turn Red Next Week
When a full moon drifts into Earth's shadow, called the umbra, a total eclipse takes place. The moo…
Leslie Baehr
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Feel incredibly lonely as you stare at this photo of the Earth and moon drifting through space
Scientists think that asteroids may have carried the necessary ingredients for life to Earth long a…
Kelly Dickerson
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There won't be anything like Friday's eclipse for another 8 years - here's how to watch
During Friday's eclipse, the harvest moon will drift into Earth's penumbral shadow. This is the lig…
Ali Sundermier
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Earth's air supply may reach nearly 400,000 miles into space - so far that the moon constantly flies through it
SOHO, which has been in operation for about 23 years, carries an ultraviolet-light-recording instru…
Dave Mosher
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These are the 4 likeliest places we'll find alien life
During a recent live TED Talk in New York, NASA planetary scientist Jim Green described the four mo…
Kelly Dickerson
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Photos from NASA's Artemis mission zipping past the moon reveal a view no astronaut has seen firsthand in 50 years
No humans have flown past the moon since the Apollo missions. But if Artemis I succeeds, NASA plans…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An astronomer who said that a SpaceX rocket part will hit the moon now says the object most likely came from a Chinese spacecraft
Astronomer Bill Gray said he had evidence that the rocket part due to hit the moon in March is a Ch…
Kate Duffy
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These beautiful space photos are actually just a bunch of junk in a scanner
He even based his latest series around a fictional space probe called Wander - short for Wormhole A…
Sean Kane
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This chart shows all 10 of the likeliest ocean worlds in space
Now, with news of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus harboring a global, salty, organic nutrient-filled oc…
Dave Mosher
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A city in China wants to launch an artificial moon into orbit by 2020 - here's what would happen if Earth really did have two moons
But not all destruction would happen on Earth. The combined pull of the planet and the original moo…
Gina Echevarria,Shira Polan
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What living on Earth would be like without the moon
Now, the moon may not hold as much sway over human reproduction. But without it, something else we …
Gene Kim,Jessica Orwig
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Astronomers discover whirling electric winds at Saturn's north pole, solving a decades-old NASA mystery
Saturn's aurora borealis, unlike auroras on other planets, is driven by a powerful weather system. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The moon has been drifting away from Earth for 4.5 billion years. A stunning animation shows how far it has gone.
Today, the moon is pulling away from Earth at about 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year. Scientis…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A simple animation by a planetary scientist reveals what would happen without leap years: December would eventually drift into summer
O'Donoghue spends his free time making animations of astronomy concepts like the moon's retreat fro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Apollo astronaut: 'You go to heaven when you are born'
"You have to remember we brought back a picture of the Earth as it is 240,000 miles away. And the f…