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How to watch the 'spooky' asteroid flying unusually close to Earth on Halloween

Here, we used thee free app Stellarium to figure out where it would be in New York City at exactly …

Jessica Orwig   


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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who just defeated a powerful House Democrat, has an asteroid named after her - here's why

Jenifer Evans, an electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab, was one of the lead scientists on LINEAR …

Dave Mosher   


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A huge pyramid-like mountain exists in the asteroid belt and NASA can't explain it

Expect to hear about other surprises on Ceres in the coming years: The Dawn spacecraft is in such a…

Sarah Kramer,Dave Mosher   


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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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Astronomers Spot A Never-Before-Seen Comet-Like Thing In The Sky

Comets, on the hand, are typically made of ice, dust, and rock. When comets gets close to the sun, …

Dina Spector   


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Stunning New Details From The Largest Asteroid Impact In A Century

Thanks to cell phones, dashboard video cameras, and other recording devices, researchers have been …

Dina Spector   


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A 'Nation-Busting' Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2036

Comets are different from asteroids for a number of reasons. The biggest difference is that asteroi…

Dina Spector   


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WATCH: Massive comet fragment blazes up in beautiful blue flames over Portugal and Spain

In Portugal, a fragment of an unidentified comet streaked through the atmosphere at a blistering 45…

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Confused about the potential Qualcomm-Intel deal? Here's why it matters even if it doesn't happen.

Doubts about the Qualcomm-Intel deal stem from uncertainty over how Intel's manufacturing fits into…

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Here's what fireballs are and how to best spot them at the Perseid meteor shower's peak

Explore the celestial spectacle of fireballs during the Perseid meteor shower, set to peak this wee…

Hannah Getahun,Sebastian Cahi…   


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Jason Schwartzman will think about working on 'Megalopolis' with Francis Ford Coppola 'til the day I die'

Jason Schwartzman stars in "Between the Temples," and will soon appear in Francis Ford Coppola's "M…

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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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How to make money from medical research and donations

You can make good money from donating plasma or sperm on a regular basis. Other donations and scien…

Hilary Brueck   


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The mystery of how the moon formed is still puzzling scientists. The secret could lie deep within our planet.

Scientists have several theories for how the moon first formed. The leading hypothesis involves a m…

Marianne Guenot   


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'Suzume' director Makoto Shinkai is 'a little exhausted' by the constant comparisons to Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki

Makoto Shinkai is best known for his 2016 smash hit "Your Name," and his other most recent films "W…

Palmer Haasch   


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The world's top alien hunters explain why a Harvard physicist's discovery of 'alien' tech is likely a false alarm

Scientists from top alien-hunting organizations SETI and METI don't think Harvard physicist, Avi Lo…

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Vivo X100 Pro Review - Peak Camera Performance

It’s been 8 months since we got our hands on the Vivo X90 series smartphone, and the brand has alre…

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A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.

Avi Loeb thinks the public has a right to know the truth about UFOs. He hopes his controversial ide…

Marianne Guenot   


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A new climate solution involves shooting moon dust into space to create a 'solar shield' around Earth, but scientists say it's a risky last resort

A moon-dust shield is the latest in a series of risky, last-resort geoengineering proposals to shie…

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