the Earth came into view over the moon's horizon. The crew reacted with astonishment to the beautiful sight, snapping photographs and expressing their excitement. These images would become some of ...

A huge rock orbiting near Earth appears to have originated from the moon, the second such object known to exist, with maybe more than a dozen awaiting discovery. The asteroid, called 2024 PT5 ...

A new robot is set to capture the first global images of Earth's magnetic field "breathing" in and out from the surface of the moon, NASA has announced. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray ...

the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth appears significantly faster than the movement of Mars in its orbit around the Sun. There are undoubtedly sharper images of Monday night's ...

Stunning new images of the moon have been beamed back to Earth from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Juice mission showing some sign of real colour differences on the lunar surface. On Monday ...

A powerful adaptive optics system compensates for blurring introduced by atmospheric turbulence, making it one of the most powerful Earth ... moon’s surface. In April this year it took more ...

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THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was ... However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as it is potentially a piece of the real moon, said Dr. Teddy Kareta, a ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...