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An Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Is Zipping By The Earth This Weekend - Here's How To Watch
At an estimated 88 feet in diameter, 2014 RC is roughly the same size as the 98-foot-wide 2012 DA14…
Ajai Raj
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Astronauts Captured An Amazing Image Of Italy's 'Boot' From Space
The image was taken by the Expedition 42 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast…
NASA Earth Observatory
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Big, Beautiful Pictures Of 4 New Planets That Could Have Life On Them
Kepler observes 150,000 stars, and has found a few thousand of those to have planet candidates. If …
Harrison Jacobs
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Incredible Shots Of Chicago From The International Space Station
It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The Int…
NASA Earth Observatory
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NASA just took some of the best images of the Arctic we've ever seen
We have highlighted eight favorite scenes at the bottom of this page. Some features, such as the su…
NASA Earth Observatory
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Astronomers used JWST to finally solve a 37-year mystery over one of the brightest cosmic explosions ever seen in modern history
The James Webb Space Telescope has solved the mystery of what one of the brightest supernovae in hi…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like.
"People often talk about how we are standing on a ball (Earth) which rotates at great speed, and th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 1,100-foot-wide asteroid is on course to pass by Earth in a decade
Davide Farnocchia, an astronomer at JLP's Center for Near Earth Objects Studies said: "We already k…
Rebecca Speare-Cole
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Hubble Snapped This Picture Of Jupiter With A Creepy 'Hole' In Its Great Red Spot
This image might not have been possible 200 years ago, even if the technology had been around to se…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible
Not only did they think something that big would be a gas giant, but they didn't even think the ele…
Leslie Baehr
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The Best 3-D Map Of The Milky Way's Center Ever Created
In this study, scientists were able to identify stars 30 times fainter than previous surveys of the…
Dina Spector
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The truth about the mysterious center of the universe
Between 1914 and 1919, American astronomer Harlow Shapley mapped distant stars in our home galaxy, …
Jessica Orwig
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NASA green lights Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin for future missions, including planetary expeditions and satellite launches
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket could carry out Earth observation missions, planetary expeditions, a…
Kate Duffy
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Incredible Image Of Florida At Night From Space
Astronaut photograph ISS041-E-74232 was acquired on October 13, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital came…
NASA Earth Observatory
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Map shows entire year of lightning strikes on Earth
The map is based on data collected from 1998-2013 by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on NASA's T…
NASA Earth Observatory
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Astronomers just spotted something that will give them insight into how planets form
"The distribution of water ice around a young star is fundamental to planet formation and even the …
Ali Sundermier
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The 15 best asronaut photos of 2015 according to NASA
From 250 miles up, astronauts have a bird's-eye view of Earth's natural wonders. They see the raw p…