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Good News! The Sun Might Not Eat Earth After All, According to New Simulations.
New simulations suggest Earth may avoid being engulfed by the Sun, though the planet would still become uninhabitable long before then.
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Venus and Jupiter Will Almost Touch in the Sky Tonight. Here’s How to See It.
The two brightest planets in the night sky will almost touch tonight, and no telescope is required to see it yourself.
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Everything We Know About Asteroid JH2, the Washington Monument-Sized Space Rock That Just Flew Between Earth and the Moon
Scientists say the asteroid was never going to hit us, which is nice, since they only spotted it days before it passed.
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A City-Killer Asteroid Just Passed Shockingly Close to Earth, and Scientists Barely Saw It Coming
The object was small, fast, and hard to spot, which is exactly why near-Earth asteroids remain so unnerving.
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Ieang/Getty Images The Government Is Once Again Promising UFO Files That Will Change Everything
The government says new alien-related documents are coming soon, but experts think the big reveal will probably be underwhelming.
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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images Astronomers Just Found 27 Possible Planets Orbiting Two Suns. What Happens Next?
Researchers found 27 potential worlds orbiting two stars, suggesting twin-sun planets might not be quite so rare.
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An Astronaut Filmed an ‘Earthset’ With His Phone, Proving Humans Really Did Go to Space
In an AI-driven era, people in a spaceship snuck behind the moon to capture smartphone images better than anything AI could dream up.
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Kevin Key/Slworking/Getty Images The Lyrid Meteor Shower Is Peaking Tonight, and the Viewing Conditions Are Shockingly Good
The lyrid meteor shower peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, and this year the sky is staying nice and dark.
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Roberto Machado Noa/Getty Images NASA Wants to See What Happens When You Start a Fire On the Moon
NASA wants to start a fire under lunar gravity just to see what happens. And maybe learn a thing or two about putting out a space fire.
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The Northern Lights Will Soon Be Visible in Unexpected Places. Here’s How to See Them.
A giant hole opened up in the sun’s atmosphere, and if you live in the right part of the country, you might want to go outside tonight.
