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The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...
Clock time is also getting shorter, kind of. Broadly speaking, Earth takes roughly 24 hours to spin around on its axis. Ocean ...
July's Buck Moon for 2025 is just around the corner, here's why it's extra special this year, plus when it's happening and ...
July’s full moon will look especially low in the sky after sunset. This is largely because of its proximity to the summer solstice, when the sun is at its highest in the daytime sky and the moon ...
July’s full ‘Buck Moon’ rises close to aphelion, making it the furthest full moon from the sun in 2025. The July full moon, ...
In the coming weeks, Earth is expected to rotate slightly faster than usual, causing several days to be marginally shorter.
Look to the skies on Thursday and you can see something unusual: the ‘Moon illusion’, which happens when our satellite is low ...
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
What if Venus became Earth's moon? Explore how our planet would change if Earth’s twin, a planet almost the same size and ...
Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...
How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...
There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...