Once-in-a-lifetime comet is streaking by Earth. Can you see it from Boise? Here’s latest
The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet was first discovered by observers at China’s Tsuchinshan Observatory and an ATLAS telescope in ...
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Rare illusion gives 'once-in-a-lifetime' comet a seemingly impossible 2nd tail after closest approach to Earth for 80,000 years
New photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appear to show a faint "anti-tail" pointing away in the wrong direction. The puzzling ...
Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
‘Doomsday Swarm’ Hides 14 Large Asteroids That Could Hit Earth In Future, Scientists Say
There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.
SpaceX deploys another batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
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Meet NEO Surveyor, NASA’s near-Earth asteroid detector
Meet NASA’s NEO Surveyor, the space telescope identifying hazardous asteroids and comets within 48 million kilometres of ...
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What's All This About Earth Having a Temporary Second Moon?
It may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Earth's "mini-moon" is here to stay for a couple of months.
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The key ingredients for life on Earth came from space, new evidence suggests
The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in ...
A ‘severe’ Earth-bound solar storm could bring northern lights far south
The aurora borealis could be seen as far south as Alabama and California on Thursday night, and the surge of solar particles ...
Solar Storm Buffets Earth and Is Likely to Generate Light Show
An explosion of particles arrived at Earth on Thursday, and could lead to visible northern lights in much of the country ...
China’s Reusable Satellite Returns to Earth After Experimenting With Crop Mutations in Space
The Shijian-19 satellite carried seeds to orbit, exposing them to the microgravity environment to test plant mutation in ...