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NASA spots large asteroid on collision course with the Moon

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...
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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Flyby Asteroid Dinkinesh At 10,000 MPH

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer ...
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Bus-Size Asteroid Flew Closer Than The Moon - Watch The Orbit Animation

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve ...

Earth Doesn't Really Have Two Moons Until 2083, But It Does Have A Longterm Visitor In Orbit

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...

Mysterious flashes of light crashed on the moon — here’s what they were

Bursts of light captured crashing into the moon last week were caused by dual asteroid strikes against the lunar surface that ...

2 Spooky Flashes Lit Up the Moon. Here’s What Made Them.

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...

Visit Our Solar System’s Tallest Mountains

On Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanically active world—you’ll find the mountain Ionian Mons. Its height is estimated at nearly 8 miles. All in all, scientists have discovered more than ...
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If your PC is too puny to launch Europa Universalis 5, there's a secret very low graphics preset

Paradox have published some quick advice for Europa Universalis 5 players who are having trouble with crashes and black ...
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Nation's Mars orbiter snaps images of interstellar object

The orbiter, which is part of the nation's ongoing Tianwen 1 mission for Mars exploration, took the images of the comet, ...
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In an Out of This World Observation, a Museum Curator Filmed the Moon Getting Struck by Meteors—Twice

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

China Beats NASA to Capture and Release First Close-Up Image of Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas

China became the first to capture and publicly release close-up images of interstellar object 3I/Atlas ahead of NASA, ...