Jan 8
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Christmas is out of the way, and covid-19 has cancelled New York Toy Fair, but also: It’s Been a Week. So your…
Dec 23
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Scientists have released an analysis of a meteorite fragment gathered after a 2008 asteroid near-collision with…
Dec 15
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It looks like coffee beans in a grinder, but it’s actually bits of dust and pebbles scooped up from the surface of…
Dec 6
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After six years of traveling and exploring, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 probe on Saturday…
Nov 20
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Yesterday brought the tragic news that the famous 1,000-foot radio dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico wil…
Nov 14
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The clock is officially ticking.
Oct 27
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The rapid recovery and analysis of a meteorite that fell onto a frozen lake in Michigan two years ago is…
Oct 26
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Oct 20
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Update: OSIRIS-REx made contact with the surface on schedule, executed the sample-collection procedure, and fired…
Oct 14
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and an Earth-Bound Meteor Will Star in Netflix's Don't Look Up
“Fake news” is about to get taken to a whole new level in a new movie from the man behind Vice and Anchorman that…
Sep 25
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Earth will soon welcome a temporary mini-moon, but this newly detected object, an apparent asteroid, might actually…
Aug 19
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On August 16, a car-sized asteroid came to within 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of our planet, making it the…
May 27
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When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth, it struck at an angle that maximized its destructive…
May 21
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It’s neither an asteroid nor a comet but something in between. It’s also parked within Jupiter’s orbit, making this…
May 7
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Hayabusa2 is heading home to Earth, but scientists continue to review data collected by the spacecraft during its…
Apr 23
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Astronomers think they’ve found an entire population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system,…
Mar 23
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To prepare for OSIRIS-REx’s pending touchdown onto the surface of Bennu, NASA used the spacecraft to photograph…
Mar 19
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When a gigantic asteroid struck the Earth some 66 million years ago, it triggered an “impact winter” that…
Mar 2
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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft set out on September 8, 2016 to study the asteroid Bennu. But last fall, one of its…