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The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true moon.
Artemis II is set to blast off to the moon in early February with four astronauts, including the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen. But we've already been to the moon, so why are we going back? Do we get any benefits here on Earth?
Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be preserved in lunar soil.
Scientists are beginning to read Earth in a different way, not from orbit, but from the surface of the moon. A recent study, “Spherical Harmonic Fingerprints Characterize Moon-Based Disk-Integrated Earth's Emitted Radiation Signatures”,
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Asteroid YR4 could blast the moon and shower Earth with meteors, experts warn
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has shifted from a near term scare to a slow burning celestial drama. Instead of slamming into our planet, the space rock now has a small but real chance of crashing into the Moon, blasting out debris that could light up our skies and rattle the infrastructure we have placed in orbit.
The Moon is a pretty peculiar object. It is believed that it formed from the incredible collision between the proto-Earth and a Mars-sized object we call Theia. This means the compositions of the Moon and Earth are similar, but there are some elements – the lighter ones, known as volatiles – that were basically lost during that Moon's formation.
If flying to the Moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific would have ventured more than 40 metres from the beach. That is about to change.
Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came from, revealing surprising clues while raising new questions about our planet’s earliest history.
While the US is attempting to come up with CLT, researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing and the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei have been working on a new software tool to quickly calculate lunar time and translate it to Earth time.