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NASA Smashed An Asteroid, And Now The Debris Is Headed Right For Us
When NASA smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft in 2022 on purpose, it was seen as a technological triumph because it demonstrated that humans can ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth at Over 29,000 mph
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
A 150-million-year journey from the Jurassic to Exposition Park
It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...
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A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a volcanic mystery
Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.
NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.
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NASA's Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity Almost Failed.
But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...
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Asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere and bursts over the Pacific Ocean; What happens next is surprising
The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...
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Volcanic ash from Mexican volcano spotted over Florida
Mexico’s most active volcano, along with the jet stream pattern, sent ash over the Gulf of Mexico and Florida ... Closer to the volcano’s crater, flight operations into and out of Mexico ...
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Space station crew taken for medical evaluation after return from record-setting 235-day mission
Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Friday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico to close out an extended 235-day expedition to the International Space Station.
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A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.
It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans ... Scientists suspect the impact left behind a monstrous crater some 297 miles (487 kilometers) wide ...
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Gulf states' reluctance to allow use of its airspace may be delaying Israel's Iran strikes
Israel’s much-anticipated attack on Iran is taking longer than expected because Israel has had to consider adjusting to warnings from Gulf Arab states not to use their airspace in the attack ...
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The Four Most Underrated Vacation Spots in Mexico
Ten million visitors came through Cancún in 2023, representing 1 in 4 tourists to Mexico that year. For a country three times the size of Texas, rich with culture, art and nature, the figure is a ...