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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.
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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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Photo: alex-mit / Getty Images Astronomers Say Something Massive Is Lurking Inside the Milky Way
The trickster galaxy has been hiding in plain sight for billions of years.
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Photos: Antagain / Getty Images Scientists Crushed Fruit Flies With Extreme Gravity. Something Strange Happened Next.
The bugs were subjected to forces ranging from 4G to an absurd 13G.
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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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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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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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Photo: Nzoka John / Getty Images This Asteroid Created a Cosmic Hiking Trail to Mars (and Scientists Want to Follow It)
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a shortcut to Mars?
