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The Day an Asteroid Hits: Earth’s Worst Nightmare
Witness the potential scale of destruction and long-term consequences of an asteroid impact on Earth. A boy and his father ...
A 1,000 Lb. Space Object Orbiting Earth Since 1972 Is Expected to Crash-Land in About a Week: Here's What to Know
Kosmos 482, a 1,000 lb. former Soviet space probe, is currently expected to renter the Earth's atmosphere between May 8 and ...
$10,000 Quadrillion Asteroid: NASA’s Psyche mission stalls mid-space with thrust issue
NASA’s Psyche mission to a $10,000 quadrillion metal asteroid hit a snag with thrust loss, but backup systems offer hope to ...
Asteroids the Size of Buses Approaching Earth—Here's How Close They'll Get
NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...
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NASA’s $10 Quintillion Asteroid Mission Faces Thruster Trouble—What’s Next for Psyche?
NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a ...
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First image from the world’s largest solar telescope captures the sun in unheard-of detail
A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...
NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor
NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...
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Out-of-control Soviet satellite to crash land on Earth in DAYS as scientist warns it could 'hit like a meteorite'
The failed Venus lander will likely survive re-entry into Earth's orbit due to its specially designed heat shield ...
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Psyche spacecraft's sci-fi thrusters suffer glitch on way to metal-rich asteroid
"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...
Vesta, the 2nd-largest asteroid in the solar system, may be a piece of a lost planet
Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...
When a comet hits a tidally locked exo-Earth
Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...
Asteroid could be NASA's new target
Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...