A moon-bound spacecraft snaps footage of Earth eclipsing the sun
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
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Blue Ghost moon lander sees Earth as a 'blue marble' from orbit (photo)
"Our GhostRiders captured the beauty of our home planet during another Earth orbit burn ... the surface of the moon for one lunar day, or about two Earth weeks. Then, the sun will set on the ...
Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away ...
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'Goodbye Earth, hello moon': What Blue Ghost lander has been up to in NASA mission
A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit ... as the Earth blocks the sun just ...
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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 to as its temporary “mini-moon ... distant orbit. But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar ...
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Say hello to the moon in stunning footage as Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit
Launched last month, the spacecraft will attempt the second ever soft landing on the moon by a commercial entity. Having spend several weeks in orbit around Earth ... showing the sun, the moon ...
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Remember the 'mini-moon' last year? Study finds it was likely just a chunk of the actual moon
Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...
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Bad Moon Rising for Bitcoin? Astrologers Think So as Rare Cosmic Event Approaches
Seven planets will align on Feb. 28, and astrologers predict market turbulence for Bitcoin and the crypto market broadly.
‘It’s almost science fiction’: Scientists say the shape of Earth’s inner core is changing
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...
A new theory explains how water first arrived on Earth
At the very beginning of its history, Earth was dry. How did it become a blue planet? A new theory could provide an answer.