NASA Monitors As Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaches Earth Today
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
Here’s What Trump’s Win Means for NASA
When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...
NASA on High Alert as ‘God of Chaos’ Asteroid Apophis Approaches Earth
Washington: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has issued an alert for November 13 as asteroid 99942 ...
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Taurid meteor shower to light up the night sky. Here's how you can see it
The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that broke up about 10,000 years ago.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off another 5 percent of workforce
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is reducing its workforce by 5 percent, or 325 employees, amid budget cuts and issues with ...
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SETI Institute Strengthens Science Advisory Board with Five New Members
The new members bring expanded expertise in ethics, space communication, animal intelligence, extraterrestrial materials and ...
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
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The Taurid meteor shower will light up the sky tonight. Here's how to watch.
The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October and November. They may have originated from a comet that ...
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An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024
Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
Hera burns towards Mars
ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...
MIT scientists study particles from distant asteroid for clues to the outer solar system’s origin
We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
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Asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere and bursts over the Pacific Ocean; What happens next is surprising
According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the Philippines asteroid, named 2024 RW1, was three feet long and was spotted by a NASA scientist using the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey ...