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NASA tracks five near-Earth asteroids flying close to our planet this week. Despite their size, none pose a threat for at ...
NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...
NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope ...
A NASA study reveals that increased solar activity, particularly during solar maximum, accelerates satellite re-entry due to ...
Stranded in space for 256 days, astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams faced unexpected health challenges upon ...
Asteroid 2025 JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million ...
Of the six ‘invisible threats’, three named 2020 SB, 524522, and 2020 CL1 ‘have a severe risk of collision’ as their orbits ...
The antigravity treadmill, which has benefits in space and on Earth, was pioneered by Robert Whalen at NASA's Ames Research ...
Twenty years ago, Congress gave NASA a directive: find 90% of the near-Earth asteroids that could potentially harm our little ...
An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...
JR is an Apollo class, defined by the Earth-crossing orbits. With a speed of around 40,800 kilometres per hour (25,356 miles ...
One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.