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An asteroid the size of a huge piano hits Earth, and we know exactly where and when NASA says
Asteroid 2022 EB5 hit the ocean on Monday, but NASA has known exactly where it is for more than two hours (this ... This is an illustration, not a picture of the event.
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Some said it was ladder size. Others said it was more…
NASA astronauts perform spacewalks to provide space station power upgrades
The space station is preparing for more power upgrades as two NASA astronauts perform their first spacewalk of the year on Tuesday. Astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari donned and exited the space station to begin some installation at…
A new hypothesis for MIT scientists about one of the biggest mysteries of science
About 2.3 billion years ago, oxygen began to accumulate in the atmosphere, eventually reaching the life-sustaining levels we breathe today. A new hypothesis proposed by MIT scientists suggests a mechanism for how this might happen. In…
Black hole ‘pool’ may explain strange aspects of 2019’s black hole merger
Zoom / Illustration of a swarm of small black holes in a gas disk orbiting a supermassive black hole.Samsing / Niels Bohr Institute
In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a…
Officials have confirmed that several magnetic storms will hit Earth this week
The sun continues its tumultuous behavior, with flares and coronal mass ejections nearly every day since mid-January. This means that the inevitable has happened: some of those eruptions have exploded in the general direction of the…
After the “Caesars on Mars”, China is vying with the United States for dominance in…
The race for space has quietly intensified in parallel with the geopolitical competition unfolding here on Earth. China, for example, has made great strides in its space programs and is looking to take the lead from Russia in challenging…
A bus-sized asteroid is flying close to Earth today. Watch it live.
You can watch big asteroid Take a safe flight back to Earth today (March 13) from anywhere with good internet access.Weather permitting, the Virtual Telescope Project will broadcast live telescope views of the recently found asteroid 2022…
Creativity is still ‘new quality’ after nearly a year on Mars
WASHINGTON — After nearly a year of operations, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is still "as good as new" as it serves as an explorer for the tenacious rover.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced on March 11 that…
Two massive points in the Earth’s mantle confuse scientists with their amazing properties
3D view of the point in Earth's mantle below Africa, shown in red, yellow, and orange. Cyan represents the main mantle boundary, blue indicates the surface, and transparent gray indicates the continents. Credit: Mingming Li / ASU
The…
NASA’s Giant Crawler On Move As Giant Moon Rocket Launch Approaches
Engineers and technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida drove the Carrier crawler 2 on March 11, 2022, to the doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Soon, it will go inside the VAB where it will carry an Artemis I Moon…