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For the past 60 years, Earth has had a secret companion in space—a quasi-moon that has been sharing our planet’s orbit around ...

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Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

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Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...

The obvious way to fire someone into the Sun is the direct approach, as shown in South Park Season 1. Point a rocket at the ...