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NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching the Earth Today
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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China's Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling probe snaps gorgeous shots of Earth and the moon (video, photos)
China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.
Astronomers capture the birth of planets around baby sun outside our solar system
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...
Here's how a star beyond Earth's sun could offer a 'picture of the baby solar system'
International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.
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New Dwarf Planets Beyond Neptune in 2025
Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii ...
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Astronomers Spot Interstellar Visitor: a Comet Blazing Through Our Solar System, Just the Third Ever Seen
Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...
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Fire and ice: Astronomers discover two very different exoplanets orbiting one star
A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...
NASA's Lucy Probe Sends First Full View Picture Of Main-Belt Asteroid Donaldjohanson
The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...