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NASA spots large asteroid on collision course with the Moon

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...
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NASA Says Earth Has a Temporary Second Moon - and It's Sticking Around Until 2083

NASA's astronomers have recently discovered a ‘quasi-moon' orbiting within Earth's orbital neighbourhood. This quasi-moon ...
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A NASA balloon launched an experiment despite government shutdown

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...
NBC New York

An asteroid might be heading for the moon. Should we nuke it?

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...
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Comet 3I/ATLAS nears a rare NASA spacecraft encounter

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is currently making its way through our solar system at a staggering speed of 130,000 mph.
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China’s Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter captures rare image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS while researchers wait for NASA's HiRISE photos

New images of the interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, shows its nucleus and a surrounding coma with a diameter reaching several ...