Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
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JWST reveals exoplanet composition with unprecedented clarity
From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...
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6 Reasons Why Jupiter Is My Favorite Planet
Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives another close flyby of the Sun at record-breaking speed
NASA's Parker Solar Probe shatters its own speed record, soaring just 8 million miles above the sun's surface, collecting ...
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View from Mars Hill: Moonstruck: An overview of the planets' moons
Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...
Fossils of weird Mongolian dinosaur that wielded ‘big, sharp and nasty’ claws unearthed during construction project
The dinosaur, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long, weighed approximately 575 pounds (260 kg) ...