Work Set to Begin on Asteroid Hunting ObservatoryâNASA’s New Mission to Protect Earth from Disaster
A new space-based surveyor that will help catalog millions of near-Earth objects is now ready for budgeting and building after passing a rigorous technical review. This year NASA completed its first-ever mission organized entirely for the purpose of planetary defense, when the DART probe slammed into an asteroid to see if it could be redirected […]
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âAlienâ Minerals Never Found on Earth Share Their Traumatic Origin Story
In 2019, prospectors found a meteorite in Somalia while looking for opal which has now revealed three never-before-seen minerals that originated off-Earth. Since minerals are a little like recipes, their formation can inform us as to the history of their making, and these are no exception; with scientists positing that they came from the surface […]
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Top 10 stories of 2022 from EarthSky
The top 10 stories of 2022 is a review of what weâve learned in the past year from our home planet, Earth, out to the vast universe. See the top 10 here.
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Did Mars have 1st life in our solar system?
A new study said that Mars once had enough water, largely brought by asteroids, for a deep global ocean. Those asteroids also brought organic molecules.
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Are 2 snowflakes ever the same?
Many billions of snowflakes drift down to Earth’s surface in the winter. Some are the lacy or star-type snowflakes. Others are what scientists call ‘columns.’
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Stars and planets grow rapidly together
An international team of researchers has released a new study of “polluted” white dwarf stars showing that stars and planets likely form simultaneously.
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NASA predicted asteroid impact in Ontario, Canada
NASA predicted the asteroid impact in Ontario, Canada, with its Scout impact hazard assessment system. The goal of Scout is to track impact hazards to Earth.
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Asteroid hit Canada mere hours after discovery
On November 19, 2022, a small asteroid hit Canada just hours after discovery. People around Toronto saw, felt and heard the space rock enter Earth’s atmosphere.
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What is the Great Filter, and can we survive it?
A new study suggests the reason we haven’t found intelligent civilizations in the galaxy is that such civilizations might not have survived their Great Filter.
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New sun-hugging asteroids: âBiggest in 8 yearsâ
Using a special camera, astronomers have found several new sun-hugging asteroids, including the biggest potentially hazardous asteroid in 8 years.
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