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Earth, the sun and a bike wheel: Why your high-school textbook was wrong about the shape of Earth's orbit
The average Earth-sun distance is 150 ... achieved with an elliptical orbit. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks believed all celestial objects orbited around the Earth, traveling in ...
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How long does it take to get to Mars?
The distance between Earth and Mars changes constantly ... involve a trip directly through the sun, while spacecraft must of necessity move in orbit around the solar system's star.
NASA Tracking Washington Monument-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...
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Blue Ghost moon lander sees Earth as a 'blue marble' from orbit (photo)
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar ...
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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Earth's '2nd moon' escapes our planet's orbit — will it ever return?
A mini-moon that has been orbiting Earth for the past two months will peel away from our planet's orbit ... around for a farewell pass of the Earth in January, zipping by us at a much closer ...
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An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
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Asteroid Alinda makes closest Earth pass in a century
In the coming days, we can observe one of the most spectacular astronomical events. Asteroid 887 Alinda, with a diameter of about 2.6 miles, will be the closest asteroid to Earth in 100 years. In many ...