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Vera C. Rubin Observatory How Scientists Found Thousands of Asteroids Hiding in Plain Sight
A new observatory has discovered more than 11,000 new asteroids, including 33 near-Earth objects, before even reaching full operation.
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The Earth Has 8.3 Billion People. This Is How Many It Can Actually Hold, According to Science.
Obviously, that’s a number we have severely overshot and will continue to build on that lead for the foreseeable future.
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NASA Here’s What Has to Go Right for You to See the Rare Sungrazer Comet This Weekend
A comet is about to do something pretty wild this Saturday, which is flying absurdly close to the sun and hoping for the best.
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DrPixel/Getty Images Why Scientists Think This Asteroid Is the Core of a Dead Planet (and Extremely Valuable)
Scientists think this asteroid may be the metal-rich core of a failed planet, making it one of the most valuable objects in space.
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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images The Cold, Hard Truth About Those Viral Videos of Meteors Slamming Into the Moon
It’s fake. Of course it’s fake. And it’s not even a convincing kind of fake if you know what the real thing looks like.
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Gremlin/Getty Images How an Astronaut Almost Drowned While Floating in Space
Astronaut Luca Parmitano described to New Scientist’s Colin Barras one of the most dangerous moments of his career.
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Dima_zel/Getty Images Artemis II Astronauts Are Getting a Major Space Toilet Upgrade (Crews of the Past Pooped in Bags)
Humans are heading back to the moon for the first time in decades, and thankfully, they won’t be doing it with Apollo-era restrooms.
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Olga Pankova/Getty Images The Moon Got a New Crater in 2024, and Nobody Noticed Until Now
As scientists were combing through reams of data, they spotted something incredibly rare: fresh moon craters.
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VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Why Scientists Want to Kidnap Asteroids and Drag Them Closer to Earth
A startup wants to snag a near-Earth asteroid with a giant inflatable bag, potentially making space mining real.
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NASA, ESA, Dennis Bodewits (AU); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s Hubble Caught a Comet Breaking Up in Real Time, and the Images Are Wild
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers captured detailed images of a comet as it began to tear itself apart.
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Asteroid Ryugu Asteroid Ryugu Is Carrying All 5 DNA Building Blocks of Life. Could There Be Another Earth in the Universe?
All five of the essential building blocks of DNA and RNA, known as nucleobases, exist on the asteroid Ryugu.
