NASA Tracking Three Vehicle-Sized Asteroids Nearing Earth Today
The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
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Mysterious ‘Chirping’ Waves Detected 100,000 Miles Above Earth Are Surprising Scientists
Chorus waves, quick bursts of energy known to occur relatively close to Earth and around other planets, were found in an ...
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BioSCape, co-led by UB, shows how life on Earth can be measured from space
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An ambitious, multinational research project funded by NASA and co-led by the University at Buffalo has ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-77 Chance of Hitting Earth. Here's What It Would Do
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
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Newly-launched Indian satellite left stranded by propulsion problem
An Indian navigation satellite has suffered a problem with its propulsion systems just four days after launch, preventing it ...
Gateway: The 21st-century moonshot mission
NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?
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The World’s First Moon Data Center Is Launching — Here’s What It Means
In 2024, Lonestar tested the world’s first software-defined data center around the moon’s orbit. Now, they want to send it to ...
'It could illuminate an area the size of a football stadium': How Russia launched a giant space mirror in 1993
The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...
Property and sovereignty in space − as countries and companies take to the stars, they could run into disputes
Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial bodies. But if we don't enact governing laws in the meantime, space settlers may face legal chaos.
A Magazine With a Taste for Provocation (and a Cult Following)
“People treat readings like going to a gallery opening, screening or any other cultural event that brings tight-knit creative ...
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Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice
A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...
An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...