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Seeds of life among the stars: MIT scientists find complex carbon molecules in a distant cloud, pointing to clues to Earth’s beginnings!
This discovery supports the idea that life's building blocks were present early in the Solar System…
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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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There are 19 interstellar asteroids between Jupiter and Neptune — and even computers can’t predict where they are headed
Interstellar asteroids — asteroids from outside our solar system — may not be as rare as we once …
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Asteroid Day is next week — top five things you need to know
Asteroid Day happens on June 30 every year to mark the anniversary of the most devastating impact i…
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A Harvard-led team is launching a new project to search for physical evidence of aliens and their technology
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb is leading the Galileo Project, a program that will search for signs of ext…
Aylin Woodward
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Here’s how you can watch the biggest asteroid of 2020 live as it zooms past the Earth
The good news is that you don’t have to be an expert astronomer or scientist in order to catch t…
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The biggest asteroid of 2020 will zoom past Earth on April 29 — adhering to 'social distancing' and even wearing a mask
The biggest asteroid of the year doesn’t care that Earth is under lockdown — and it’s set to zoom p…
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The Earth did not get its water from asteroids — it may have had it all along
The prevailing theory on how the Earth got its water is that the planet was born dry and water was …
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NASA gets $35 million to make sure asteroids don't destroy Earth
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) isn’t the only space agency tracking space…
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Supermassive black hole bigger than 7 billion Suns is spinning so fast that it's close to breaking the laws of physics
Chandra’s X-ray data showed that M87 was spinning between 2.4 to 6.3 times faster than the speed of…
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The mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua was a chunk of planet from another solar system, a new study says
Some astronomers think space object 'Oumuamua could have been an alien spaceship. But new research …
Aylin Woodward
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A second mysterious object from interstellar space may be about to fly through our solar system
"It's so exciting, we're basically looking away from all of our other projects right now," Olivier …
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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Mysterious interstellar 'Oumuamua' object could be a solar-powered alien probe, Harvard scientists say
Instead, it had dived between Mercury and the sun and was zooming past Earth on its way out of our …
Alex Lockie
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The bizarre interstellar object 'Oumuamua that flew through our solar system was almost definitely not aliens, a new study says
The limits of information gathered about the object left room for scientists to offer guesses about…
Aylin Woodward,Dave Mosher
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A bizarre interstellar object called 'Oumuamua continues to perplex astronomers a year after it vanished. Here's why a few scientists still wonder if it was alien.
However, Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory, told Business Insid…
Dave Mosher
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How antimatter engines could fly humans to other stars in just a few years
Antimatter isn't just a sci-fi trope. Ryan Weed has been working on designing an antimatter propuls…
Adam Barnes
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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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5 times scientists thought they may have discovered aliens
UFOs aren't screaming "aliens" to scientists. Close calls in the hunt for extraterrestrials include…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers have discovered a bizarre-looking object that came from outside our solar system
Astronomers recently discovered a bizarre-looking object in our solar system that's unlike anything…
Gene Kim,Jessica Orwig
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The last Super Moon of the year set to rise on May 7 — the flower power wonder kicks off tonight
According to NASA, the Moon will visible in its full glory for a total of three days. So, even i…