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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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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astrophotographers outline the 3 mistakes you're making when snapping photos of the moon and how to fix it
Hoping to snap a photo of Tuesday's supermoon? Astrophotographers give some tips on how to capture …
Jenny McGrath
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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have huge plans in space, but there are no laws or regul…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The 2024 harvest moon is the 2nd supermoon and last lunar eclipse this year. Here's the best time to see it when it rises Tuesday.
September 17's full moon will be a supermoon and a harvest moon. A partial lunar eclipse will also …
Jenny McGrath,Jessica Orwig
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2 'potentially hazardous' asteroids will streak by Earth this week, one as big as a mountain. You can watch it live.
On Thursday and Saturday, two different asteroids will hurtle past Earth at close range. You can wa…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Lunar bounty: Chandrayaan-3's sulphur discovery could help us get much closer to building Moon colonies
Scientists could use sulphur to create waterless concrete for building Moon bases and produce sulph…
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No other asteroid is going to get closer to Earth in the next decade than the one set to fly by on September 1
Many asteroids come and go but most keep their distance from Earth as they fly past. Now one daring…
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An asteroid that whizzed past Earth last week had its own Moon
Asteroids fly past Earth on a daily basis. More often than not, it’s more than one asteroid on any …
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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see
A Menlo Park, California, lab built this camera to learn about dark energy and dark matter, flag ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An asteroid flew closer to Earth than the Moon — but nobody knew till two days later
Asteroids come and go, but we normally know when they’ll be flying past the planet. However, last m…
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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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An asteroid nearly the size of a skyscraper will whiz between the Earth and the moon on Saturday in a once-in-a-decade event
NASA said an asteroid this size passing so close to Earth happens once in a decade. The asteroid DZ…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Watch the video of Intuitive Machines and NASA landing on the moon and hitting a snag, with $118 million on the line
Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lander touched down on the moon on Thursday. NASA's livestream of miss…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jupiter's moon Europa generates enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, NASA says
NASA's Juno mission data suggests Jupiter's moon Europa generates less oxygen than thought, which n…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Yes, the moon is shrinking but that's not the disturbing news scientists discovered that could threaten future NASA missions
A shrinking lunar crust causes moonquakes and could lead to dangerous landslides that may harm futu…
Jenny McGrath
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Just Look Up: Giant asteroid the size of Qutub Minar to pass dangerously close to Earth
It is not just natural calamities and deadly viruses that may end the human race, giant asteroids h…
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An invisible force surrounding Earth may be creating water on the moon
High-energy electrons in the plasma surrounding Earth may have helped generate water on the lunar s…