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Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.
Not so fast. Our Weird Animal Question of the Week comes from Tristan Ishtar, who asked: "What's the difference between a rabbit and a hare? And is that where 'hare brained' came from?" ...
The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA EPIC Team | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta ...
Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s signs and menus look exactly alike—down to that cheery little star logo. Are they the same restaurant owned by someone who couldn’t decide on a name, or are the ...
Lunar and solar eclipses offer unique spectacles, visible from both Earth and the Moon. Blue Ghost has enabled the capture of these moments from an unprecedented angle, enriching our knowledge of the ...
A blood moon is a full lunar eclipse, occurring when the Earth passes between the moon and the sun. From the UK, only a partial lunar eclipse will be visible, meaning only part of the moon will ...
As the Earth was hit much more frequently by these impacts than the Moon, there should also be a measurable difference between the oxygen isotopes -- depending on the origin of the material that ...
As the Earth was hit much more frequently by these impacts than the moon, there should also be a measurable difference between the oxygen isotopes—depending on the origin of the material that ...
The Moon also offers a handy site for an offworld seed repository of Earth’s plant life, much like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the island of Spitzbergen. In 2017, flooding threatened the ...
So if you were writing a science textbook, you'd want to include an illustration of the Earth-sun-moon system, right? But guess what, you can't. The distances and differences in size make it ...
Earth's temporary mini moon ... "You feel that it's an empty space between here and the moon, and there is nothing there — it's not at all like that," Maudes said. "There are a lot of different ...