The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true ...

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Earth's radiation budget is a core process of the Earth-atmosphere system, closely linked to global climate and environmental ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along ...

During its initial molten phase, the Moon experienced tidal bulges on its near and far sides due to Earth's immense gravitational pull. The Moon's rotation initially carried these gravitationally ...

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