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4 asteroids — including one plane sized and two house sized objects — to approach the Earth today, NASA warns: here’s all we know
NASA is tracking several asteroids that will pass near Earth in October 2024, none pose any direct …
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Last week, an asteroid pair came dangerously close to Earth, posed for some pictures and left!
Both asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 came in peace and were more than happy to be papped. 2011 UL21…
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NASA fixed a glitch on Voyager 1 after consulting 45-year-old manuals. The spacecraft was beaming information through a dead computer.
Voyager 1 was designed and built in the early 1970s. Documentation could be lost or misplaced, maki…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA's Mars helicopter nailed its 10th flight - double what engineers had hoped Ingenuity would do
Flight 10 is a significant milestone: Ingenuity has now flown twice as many times as NASA engineers…
Aria Bendix
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The 10 flights of NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter in one chart
Ingenuity has traveled more than a mile in total. Its recent flights have taken the little drone ov…
Aria Bendix,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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3D glasses, double headsets, and rock drilling: NASA engineers told us what it's like to drive a Mars rover from home during the pandemic
Pilots of the Mars rover are having to wear red-blue 3D glasses to drive Curiosity while working fr…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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NASA designed a cheap, simple ventilator to prevent shortages during a potential second wave of COVID-19 infections
One NASA official estimated the new ventilator would cost roughly $3,000 to produce and could use p…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory network was hacked by targeting a Raspberry Pi that wasn't supposed to be connected to it
During the April 2018 attack, the hacker stole about 500 megabytes of data from 23 files, two of wh…
Rosalie Chan
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Mars Rover Curiosity Completes An Incredible Journey, Reaches Mount Sharp
According to scientists, the analysis of these layers could expose the presence of life-affable e…
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NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Hits New Distance Record
Opportunity arrived on Mars in January 2004. The aging but intrepid rover was built to drive on…
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Hubble may have caught jets of water squirting out of a potentially habitable moon
"I really don't know the odds, but the discovery of life elsewhere in our solar system would be so …
Dave Mosher
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A Cold War technology designed to make jets fly for days might solve Earth's looming energy crisis
"Thorium is around four times as abundant as uranium and about as common as lead. Pick up a handful…
Dave Mosher
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NASA launches a probe to find out if there really could be alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa
Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplaneta…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Freaky finding: NASA's Curiosity rover has found something on Mars that shouldn’t have existed there!
Scientists say this Martian discovery by Curiosity is akin to finding an oasis in the desert—it sho…
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A football stadium-sized asteroid will blaze by Earth today. Here's how to watch the potentially hazardous 'city killer' live.
Watch live as a "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a football stadium whips past Earth to…
Ellyn Lapointe
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What happened to the extra copies of the Voyager mission's golden records
Elon Musk says he has a copy of the Voyager Golden Records. That got me thinking, so I called NASA …
Ana Altchek
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Landfills are spewing even more methane into the atmosphere than we thought
Landfills are thought to be the third-largest source of methane emissions in the US.
Catherine Boudreau
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NASA used an interstellar 'shout' to reconnect with Voyager 2 probe after losing it in a technical screw-up
NASA lost contact with Voyager 2 on July 21 after it erroneously instructed the probe to point its …
Nathan Rennolds
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A NASA cat named Taters makes history by starring in the first ultra-HD video streamed from deep space
NASA lasers shot this cat video through deep space faster than the internet sent it here on Earth. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Erin Sn…
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NASA accidentally lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe after sending a wrong command. It could mean the end of its 46-year-old mission.
NASA said it inadvertently lost contact with its probe Voyager 2 over a week ago. The probe is hurt…