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NASA Refines Threat Posed by Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Bennu
Bennu, as imaged by OSIRIS-REx.Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Data gathered during the years NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spent zipping around asteroid Bennu…
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European Space Agency Lays Out Plans for a Lunar Satellite Network
A mock-up of the Heracles lunar lander, slated to head to the moon in the late 2020s.Illustration: ESA/ATG Medialab The…
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Sun-Orbiting Spacecraft Takes Fascinating Images of a Coronal Mass Ejection
The first coronal mass ejection observed by the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) appears as a sudden gust of white…
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Tons of Invisible Asteroid and Comet Dust Falls on Us Every Year
Imperceptibly small bits of dust from space fall to Earth in a perpetual microscopic meteor shower.Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls Some 10,000…
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Astronomers Spot X-Rays Coming From Uranus
Composite image of Uranus, composed of an X-ray image taken by Chandra (shown in pink) and an optical image taken…
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Antarctica Got Blasted by a Powerful ‘Airburst’ Event 430,000 Years Ago
Artist’s interpretation of the hot jet of molten particles and hot gas, striking the ancient Antarctic surface. Image: Mark A.…
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Freaky New Feature Detected in Jupiter’s Northern Lights
Jupiter’s northern auroras. Image: NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester) A newly detected auroral feature on Jupiter bears…
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Earth Is Safe From Infamous Asteroid Apophis for the Next 100 Years, NASA Says
Apophis as it was imaged during its most recent flyby. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO Asteroid Apophis—one of the scariest rocks…
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Where Are All the Aliens? Maybe Trapped in Underground Oceans
Saturn’s moon Enceladus.Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and…
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Mars Is Hiding Its ‘Lost’ Water Beneath the Surface, New Research Suggests
A view of Mars made up of around one hundred Viking Orbiter images.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS Water that used to exist on…
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