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Scientists Want to Create an Artificial Eclipse in Space to Hunt for Alien Worlds
The proposed starshade would create an artificial eclipse in space, helping telescopes spot faint rocky planets hidden beside bright stars.
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Photo: NASA; Dr Pixel / Getty Images Why NASA Wants to Send a Laser-Powered Drone Into Caves Beneath the Moon
The LUX concept would use a fiber-optic tether to explore lunar caves that could shelter future moon bases.
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Earth’s Orbit Is Full of Hidden Space Junk, and Some of It Could Threaten Modern Life
Researchers found previously undetected debris near geosynchronous orbit, where critical communications and weather satellites operate.
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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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Piranka/Getty Images A NASA Scientist Says She Died 3 Times and Saw the Afterlife
Ingrid Honkala says her near-death experiences convinced her that consciousness may continue beyond the body.
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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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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.
