It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as “the Moon”. However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”. These are a subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth’s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.
READ MOREThere have been many pyramid-shaped UFOs in science fiction films, like the one you see above (right), but this is the first time that the US Navy confirmed a sighting made with a night vision camera.
READ MORENASA has just signed off on the production of six Orion spacecraft.
READ MORELast night, Jan. 30th around 10:30 pm PST, a spectacular fireball crawled across the skies of southern California.
READ MOREThe burst released as much energy in 20 seconds as our sun provides in 10 days.
READ MOREA man from Plymouth, England has filmed a peculiar area of flattened trees in the middle of a Devon wood.
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