Killer asteroids abound. NASA is ready to do something about it
The Russia incident was a warning.
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Tardigrades: We're now polluting the moon with near indestructible little creatures
An Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet almost made it to the moon in April. It took a selfie with the lunar surface in the background, but then lost contact with Earth and presumably crashed onto the lunar surface. Now it's ...
Space Exploration
Aug 9, 2019
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Record-setting spacewalk ends with antenna in wrong spot
A record-setting Russian spacewalk ended with a critical antenna in the wrong position Friday outside the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Feb 3, 2018
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Cuneiform clay tablet translated for the first time
A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at Köfels, Austria and ...
Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2008
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Mini-jet found near Milky Way's supermassive black hole
Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope hasn't photographed ...
Astronomy
Dec 9, 2021
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NASA Voyager 2 could be nearing interstellar space
NASA's Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 11 billion miles ...
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2018
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NASA's Juno to get a close look at Jupiter's moon Ganymede
The first of the gas-giant orbiter's back-to-back flybys will provide a close encounter with the massive moon after over 20 years.
Space Exploration
Jun 4, 2021
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The Moon may have formed in a nuclear explosion
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory suggests the Moon was formed after a natural nuclear explosion in the Earth's mantle rather than after the impact of a massive object with the Earth, as previously thought.
Why the sun's atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface
The visible surface of the sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C. But a few thousand kilometers above it—a small distance when we consider the size of the sun—the solar atmosphere, also called the corona, is hundreds ...
Astronomy
May 25, 2021
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New Horizons' evocative farewell glance at Ultima Thule
An evocative new image sequence from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule—the target of its New Year's 2019 flyby and the most distant world ever explored.
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