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13 hours agoSun is tearing a huge asteroid apart - and Earth is flying through it
Earth is currently passing through debris from a crumbling asteroid, leading to a new meteor shower visible from March 16 to April 7.
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3 days agoJust This Lifeboat Hanging On': Artemis II Astronauts Speak Of The Humanitarian Lessons Learned in Space
The Artemis II astronauts expressed overwhelming emotions and gratitude after their historic mission around the moon, emphasizing the human experience and connection to Earth.
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2 days agoArtemis III will practice docking Orion with lunar landers in Earth orbit next year while Musk's Starship and Bezos' Blue Moon compete for Artemis IV | Fortune
NASA's Artemis II mission successfully returned astronauts, paving the way for Artemis III and future lunar exploration.
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2 days agoArtemis III will practice docking Orion with lunar landers in Earth orbit next year while Musk's Starship and Bezos' Blue Moon compete for Artemis IV | Fortune
NASA's Artemis II mission successfully returned astronauts, paving the way for Artemis III and future lunar exploration.
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1 month agoNASA's asteroid defence mission slowed targets just a bit
NASA's DART mission successfully demonstrated that a spacecraft collision can alter an asteroid's trajectory, with debris ejection doubling the impact's momentum and changing the binary system's orbital period by 0.15 seconds.
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1 month agoNASA's asteroid defence mission slowed targets just a bit
NASA's DART mission successfully demonstrated that a spacecraft collision can alter an asteroid's trajectory, with debris ejection doubling the impact's momentum and changing the binary system's orbital period by 0.15 seconds.
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4 days agoArtemis astronauts face the most dangerous part of their mission, riding a fireball through the atmosphere' on re-entry
The Artemis 2 mission's return to Earth on April 10 involves extreme temperatures and speeds, making it the most dangerous part of the mission.
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1 month agoScientists Spot Two Planets That Collided, Resulting in Carnage That Will Send Prickles Through Your Scalp
Astronomers detected a planetary collision around star Gaia20ehk through unusual brightness fluctuations and infrared signatures consistent with massive debris and extreme heat from impact.
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3 days agoTrump Hires Orbital Towing Company to Build Space Interceptors
Impulse Space, founded in 2021 by former SpaceX co-founder Tom Mueller, is an up and coming player in the wacky world of space tugs, more professionally known as 'orbital transfer vehicles.' OTVs are satellites designed to carry spaceborn cargo to various orbits.
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3 days agoCongratulations to the Artemis II crew but the case for sending astronauts into space is rapidly shrinking | Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith
The US and China are racing to send humans to the moon and possibly Mars, with significant investments in lunar exploration.
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1 month agoNotorious asteroid 2024 YR4 won't crash into the moon after all
Soon after it was spotted in December 2024, worldwide telescopic observations quickly positioned it as the most dangerous space rock ever discovered—one that stood a 3.1-percent (or 1-in-32) chance of crashing into Earth on December 22, 2032. If it were to hit one of the cities potentially in its path, this 60-meter asteroid would have unleashed a force comparable to several atomic bombs, devastating the unfortunate metropolis.
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1 month agoThe moon is safe': asteroid is not on collision course, scientists confirm
Discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 was briefly considered the most dangerous asteroid in decades after scientists initially estimated it had a 3.1% chance of colliding with the Earth in 2032. Closer observations quickly ruled out a city killer scenario, but instead astronomers calculated there was a 4.3% chance that the moon lay in the path of impact.
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1 month agoNASA space probe expected to reenter the atmosphere with a chance of raining debris
NASA's Van Allen Probe A is reentering Earth's atmosphere with a one-in-4,200 risk of debris harm to people, expected around 7:45 P.M. EDT with a 24-hour uncertainty window.
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1 month agoTuesday Morning Topline: Defunct NASA Probe to Crash Onto Earth, Likely Today
A NASA probe is reentering Earth's atmosphere with a 1 in 4,200 chance of harm, Berkeley schools face layoffs, YouTube expands AI deepfake detection, Jello Biafra recovers from stroke, St. Helena addresses brown tap water, DNC sues Trump administration over election security, and RFK Jr. undergoes rotator cuff surgery.
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2 months agoScientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth
Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth's atmosphere. If they're big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over the southern Ural region in Russia in 2013, releasing a blast equivalent to 30 times the energy of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. And in case an even larger space rock were to ever threaten humanity, we'd have to get creative to keep it from colliding with our planet.
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1 month agoAliens could be CATAPULTED onto Earth via an asteroid, study claims
We found that life is more likely to survive an asteroid impact, so it's definitely still a real possibility that life on Earth could have come from Mars. Maybe we're Martians! The idea that life could have spread through the solar system or even the universe on rocks is known as the lithopanspermia hypothesis.
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