"Cislunar space has recently become prominent in the space community and warrants attention," a recent Air Force Research Laboratory document states.
Read more...It’s likely a large boulder excavated by an ancient lunar impact.
Read more...It’s easy to be brand loyal to the moon. We’ve only got the one, after all, unlike Jupiter and Saturn, where you’d have dozens to choose from. Here, it’s luna or nada. Or not. The fact is, there’s another sorta, kinda moon in a sorta, kinda orbit around Earth that was discovered only in 2016. And according to a new study in Nature, we may at last know how it was formed.
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