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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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Scientists Say Some Ejected Comets Could Return to Our Solar System
Researchers say rare “quasi-interstellar objects” could be comets ejected by our solar system that eventually return after drifting through the galaxy.
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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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Photo: lixu / Getty Images 3 Reasons Scientists Think Aliens Stay Away from Earth
About a third of the public believes they’re already here.
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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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Japan Sent a Probe to Collect Samples From an Asteroid. That Asteroid Might Actually Be a Derelict Soviet Spacecraft.
The mysterious object known as 1998 KY26 could be a tiny asteroid, a dark comet, or maybe one very lost Soviet probe.
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3I/ATLAS A Harvard Astronomer Has a New Theory About 3I/ATLAS, and Yes, It Involves Aliens Again
Avi Loeb suggests the interstellar object may have been scattering life-building material through the solar system.
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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.
