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NASA has plans to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid, to test if it can change the course of killer asteroids in the future
The DART mission aims to crash a low-cost spacecraft into Dimorphos, an asteroid about the size of …
Matthew Loh
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Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA has led 7 asteroid-impact simulations. Only once did experts figure out how to stop the space rock from hitting Earth.
Since 2013, NASA has been leading exercises in which experts confront a fictitious Earth-bound aste…
Aylin Woodward
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Space travel can lead to new motor skills but impaired vision, according to a new study of cosmonaut brains
Researchers discovered minor changes in Russian cosmonauts' brains that suggested the men were more…
Aria Bendix
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NASA and the European Space Agency are meeting to defend the Earth against asteroids
ESA, NASA and other researchers from around the world are meeting up in Rome next week to ch…
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A former NASA engineer just created the world's largest Nerf gun
The darts are made out of pool noodles and plunger heads, and the machine is powered…
Caroline Praderio
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'Planet killer' asteroid hidden by the sun may threaten Earth in a few thousand years
Asteroids orbiting between Earth and the sun are especially hard to find, but NASA can't deflect ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Europe's space agency is turning to Elon Musk's SpaceX after anti-Russian sanctions left it scrambling for rockets
SpaceX has been hired to launch two rockets for the European Space Agency, after the Ukraine confli…
Pete Syme
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In its first 100 days, the James Webb telescope peered deep into space, took beauty shots of faraway galaxies and glittering nebulae, and saw a spacecraft slam into an asteroid
Since July, the powerful infrared telescope has sent hundreds of observations back to scientists on…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Govt intervention critical to remove green financing barriers, IPCC report stresses as we move towards 3.5°C warming
The Synthesis report is the closing chapter of the Panel's Sixth Assessment of the planet and world…
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A bottle of red wine that aged for 14 months on the International Space Station is up for sale and could fetch up to $1 million
The bottle of Pétrus spent 14 months in orbit and comes with a terrestrially-aged bottle for the bu…
Annabelle Williams
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Elon Musk says we have no defence against asteroid ‘God of Chaos'
Apophis, also known as the 'God of Chaos' asteroid, will be making its way to Earth in ten years. …
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For an asteroid to wipe out humans, it has to be bigger than the one that killed the dinosaurs
"But it does have the potential to be the most devastating natural disaster known to man," exp…
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You Won't Believe What They're Making In Arizona
What They Do: Wine? In Arizona? That may sound unlikely, but for about a decade, the four wineries …