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Asteroids in our solar system
Visualisation of asteroids in Earth's solar system and their orbits around the Sun.
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Giant asteroid to whizz past Earth on Oct 31
The asteroid, known as 2015 TB145, will pass our planet by only 499,000 kilometers — the closest pa…
PTI
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Two dozen superhabitable planets identified — some older, a little larger, slightly warmer and possibly wetter than Earth
Researchers have identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that may have conditions mor…
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NASA green lights two new missions — one to explore the Sun and the other to analyse space weather around Earth for $50 million each
NASA has approved two missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Ear…
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This 1-minute animation will change your perception of life in the universe
Today, astronomers have detected over 1,700 extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, with NASA's Kepler …
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could help prevent a future mass extinction on Earth.
Thanks to the presence of an rare element called ruthenium, scientists think they know where the as…
Jenny McGrath
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The closest images ever taken of the sun show just how threatening it really is
Another useful instrument that will track the sun's activity is currently on a journey through spac…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible
Not only did they think something that big would be a gas giant, but they didn't even think the ele…
Leslie Baehr
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Astronomers have discovered a star and potentially habitable planet that are strikingly similar to the sun and Earth
Scientists discovered an Earth-like, potentially habitable planet about 3,000 light-years away. Its…
Holly Secon
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Majestic, uncanny images show what planets would look like if they replaced our Moon
The smallest planet in the solar system is also the closest to the sun: Mercury. Humans have known …
Jessica Orwig
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Crazy Image Shows What The Largest Volcano In The Solar System Would Look Like On Earth
Like the volcanoes that formed the Hawaiian islands, Olympus Mons is a shield volcano, which is nam…
Jessica Orwig
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A scientist's quick animation reveals that Earth has two types of day. Humans use the one that's 4 minutes longer.
Earth doesn't take a full 24 hours to spin on its axis — but humans use the sun to measure days. Th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth Looks Teeny-Tiny In These New Images Taken From Saturn
What looks like a non-existent speck in the original image can be blown up to see the few pixels th…
Jennifer Welsh
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A NASA scientist's incredible animation shows how dinosaurs roamed the Earth on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy
Our sun orbits the galaxy's center, completing its rotation every 250 million years or so. So Chris…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists spotted a 'space hurricane' swirling above the magnetic north pole. It was raining charged solar particles.
Satellites observed a swirling storm above the magnetic north pole in 2014. It was the first space …
Aylin Woodward
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NASA's iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' photograph turns 30 on Friday. It shows Earth in the void of space from nearly 4 billion miles away.
"There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of…