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How Many Planets Are in the Solar System?
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Bright Planets, Bold Encounters: February’s Sky Comes Alive
A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...
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February 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Venus, Jupiter, and Mars continue to dominate the sky, and the Moon occults the Pleiades
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...
5 planets, moon to align in straight line tonight
Moon along with Mercury; Earth's neighbours Venus and Mars; Jupiter and Saturn will align in a straight line and will be ...
The biggest space events of 2025 with planet alignments, meteor showers and 'blood moon'
There's a blood Moon eclipse over America and Europe this March. On March 13 and 14 2025, the full Moon will travel through ...
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred ... entered into an orbit around our planet. However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as it is potentially a piece ...