A meteor streaked over the New York City skyline before disintegrating over nearby New Jersey, according to NASA.
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2024
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An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend. With the right equipment and timing, you just might spot it.
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2024
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China's space officials said Thursday they welcomed scientists from around the world to apply to study the lunar rock samples that the Chang'e 6 probe brought back to Earth in a historic mission, but noted there were limits ...
Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2024
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A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon Sunday to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side.
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2024
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A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in ...
Astrobiology
May 1, 2024
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NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall—and it's double the rubble return goal.
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Feb 16, 2024
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An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday.
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Feb 1, 2024
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The moon is almost completely covered in dust. Unlike on Earth, this dust is not smoothed by wind and weather, but is sharp-edged and also electrostatically charged. This dust has been studied since the Apollo era at the ...
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Jan 18, 2024
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The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years met with President Joe Biden on Thursday at the White House, where he showed off an moon rock on display in the Oval Office that was collected ...
Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2023
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While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be much older than once thought. According to research published in ACS Central Science, the simplest amino acid, ...
Astrobiology
Nov 29, 2023
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