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Here's Why Astronomers Did Not Detect The Russia Meteor Ahead Of Time
In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kaza…
Dina Spector
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Astronomers Have Never Seen An Asteroid This Big Come So Close To Earth
The asteroid, about half the size of a football field (150 feet in diameter), will however, only be…
Dina Spector
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A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a meteorite
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better pr…
Marianne Guenot
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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…
Marianne Guenot
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Videos captured a fireball flashing across the Toronto skyline before it struck Earth near Niagara Falls
One video shows the fireball streak past Toronto's CN Tower, while another from a home security cam…
Kelsey Vlamis
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10 Things in Tech: Amazon is offering money to pick up your order, ChatGPT writes a “Succession” scene, and tips from an OnlyFans creator
In today's edition: Mark Zuckerberg is now shredded, ChatGPT writes a scene of the "Succession" fin…
Diamond Naga Siu
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Werner Herzog's new film, 'Fireball,' explores the power and mystery of meteorites
Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer directed the film, which premiered Friday on Apple TV+. Herzog …
Susie Neilson
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Indian spacetech startup Pixxel gets $7.3 million in funding as it announces a new product even before the launch of its first satellite
Bengaluru and Los Angeles-based Pixxel has lapped up $7.3 million (₹52.8 crore) in a seed funding r…
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Xiaomi to launch new fitness tracker Mi Band 6 on March 29
Xiaomi has confirmed to launch a new fitness tracker 'Mi 6' on March 29, the same day the company w…
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It's been 50 years since the last moonwalk. NASA astronauts explain why it took so long.
NASA's new Space Launch System had some technical issues, but astronauts say the real reason the US…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Hilary …
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Chinese capital Beijing shrouded by another sandstorm, air quality turns to severely polluted
The second sandstorm in two weeks hit Beijing on Sunday, turning the skyline yellow and plunging ai…
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China now holds the world's last giant, single-dish telescope after the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapsed
China's FAST single-dish, giant telescope is the last remaining in the world. It is also the larges…
Azmi Haroun
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Delhi's air quality dips to poor — may improve in coming days
The city recorded an overall air quality index (AQI) of 218 at 10:30 am, with Jahangirpuri (AQI …
PTI
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Pollution levels dip in Delhi but air quality remains 'very poor'
The city recorded an air quality index (AQI) of 315 at 9 am. The 24-hour average AQI was 344 on …
PTI
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3 spacecraft are set to reach Mars this month, from NASA, China, and the UAE. Here's what they aim to learn.
NASA is bringing a helicopter, and China aims to deploy an orbiter, lander, and rover from just one…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A video shows the 'violent' collapse of the iconic Arecibo telescope. It sounded like an avalanche, a staff scientist said.
Puerto Rico's iconic Arecibo radio telescope collapsed on Tuesday. Videos show its 900-ton platform…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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Data from a NASA map confirms a bright meteorite landed just off the coast of South Australia
The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the California Institute of Technology analyzes the imp…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Facebook's effort to stop suicides reveals a worrisome gap between Silicon Valley tech companies and healthcare experts
Staff at the company had been thinking about the issue of suicide since 2009, when a cluster of the…
Erin Brodwin
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Trump's 'Space Force' could fuel a new $1 trillion economy, Morgan Stanley says
"Our conversations with various actors (current and retired) in the US government, military, and in…
Graham Rapier
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There's an unsettling reason why we know about the gigantic fireball that no one ever saw
"I can think of three ways to detect a big fireball in this case: Satellite observations, which wou…