NASA was reporting late Friday that an asteroid the size of an airplane traveling at an incomprehensible speed is headed Earth's direction, though it is unlikely to make contact, scientists said. The asteroid, named 2024 NB2, will get as close as 2,390,000 miles from Earth as it passes through the...

Asteroid headed toward Earth at remarkable speed

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Scientists have discovered that the moon contains a vast underground cave on the side of a deep pit in the lunar surface.

Scientists found an underground cave on the moon where astronauts could live and think there may be hundreds more

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Twenty doomed Starlink satellites, which were prematurely released during a botched Falcon 9 rocket launch last week, have burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back to Earth, new data confirms. Experts are currently investigating what went wrong.

20 satellites fall from sky after catastrophic SpaceX rocket failure, triggering investigation

NASA recently live streamed the departure of a spaceship from the International Space Station (ISS), but it wasn’t Boeing’s Starliner, which is staying longer than expected at the orbital outpost due to technical issues. On Friday, the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm detached Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft from the...

A spaceship just left the ISS, but it wasn’t the Starliner

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The asteroid will reach a distance that is uncomfortably close to earth

NASA reports 100-foot asteroid zooming toward Earth at astounding speed

Updated on July 18, 9am PT: As expected, the Falcon 9 was indeed grounded; however, SpaceX seeks ways to obtain an exception to resume the flight operation before the full mishap investigation is officially over. Specifically, SpaceX has asked the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to make a so-called public safety determination.

SpaceX ends streak of 334 flawless flights as Falcon 9 fails. Starlink survivors to die soon [Update]

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There were a number of celebrities who passed away within the past week, including two notable actresses: Shelley Duvall and Shannen Doherty. Shelley Duvall passed away on Thursday July 11th at her home in Blanco, Texas. The cause of death was complications from diabetes and news of her death was confirmed by her partner Dan Gilroy.

Two Beloved Hollywood Actresses Have Passed Away This Week

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While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia was constructed as far back as 25,000 BC – though there has since been doubts as to whether the structure was ever man-made at all.In research led by Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and published in the journal Archaeological Prospection, the academics write that “the pyramid’s core consists of meticulously sculpted massive andesite lava” and that the “oldest construction” element of...

'World’s oldest pyramid' built 25,000 years ago was not made by humans, archaeologists claim

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For the first year, it will remain above the USA.

NASA Will Soon Launch An Artificial Star Into Orbit Over The USA

Is it possible that one day we could make Mars like Earth? –Tyla, age 16, Mississippi. When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The plot drew me in with its depiction of the “Genesis...

Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet

The launch clock isn't set yet, but the hardware is lined up for what would become the most powerful rocket to ever send humans into space during a moonbound trip the likes of which has not happened in more than 50 years. The biggest piece of the Space Launch System...

'The clock's already started': NASA counting down to most powerful human spaceflight ever

Binary asteroids hold a wealth of secrets about the cosmos, and studying these celestial wanderers has always fascinated scientists and explorers alike. One such daring mission, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), sought to uncover these mysteries by crashing a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022. This...

New DART spacecraft images reveal more about near-Earth binary asteroids

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NASA’s Curiosity rover made a “mind-blowing” discovery on Mars — yellowish-green crystals of pure sulfur, never before seen on Earth’s mysterious red neighbor, according to scientists.

The literal ground-breaking find was made after the one-ton Curiosity drove over a pile of rocks and cracked one open while probing the deep and winding Gediz Vallis channel, believed to have been formed by water 3 billion years ago.

“I think it’s the strangest find of the whole mission and the most unexpected,” Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] in Pasadena, California, told CNN. “I have to...

NASA’s Curiosity rover makes ‘mind-blowing’ discovery on Mars

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 Nasa may have found evidence of past alien life on Mars.The space agency says that its rover, Perseverance, has found a rock that might once have been host to microbial life, billions of years ago.A host of notable traits found on the rock suggest that it is possible that it is evidence that there is life on the red planet. Researchers say that it is filled with organic compounds, shows that water once flowed through it, and is marked with specks of the kind that on Earth usually signal life.The Perseverance rover has used onboard instruments to examine the...

Nasa might have found evidence of past life on Mars

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

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New images released from NASA’s mission to intentionally collide with an asteroid in 2022 have revealed information on the origins of the asteroid system.

New images reveal what NASA learned from colliding a spacecraft into an asteroid

Privacy and security red flags are being raised as the growth in advanced algorithms and AI technology have given new strength to surveillance pricing, a practice in which customers are charged however much their data says they’re willing to pay. Suggested Reading. The Federal Trade Commission has stepped in...

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After weeks of testing, NASA and Boeing officials say they better understand the issues plaguing the Starliner spacecraft, but still aren’t ready to name a return date.

Boeing, NASA may have found ‘root cause’ of Starliner spacecraft’s issues, but astronauts are still in limbo

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

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NASA’s successful mission to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to change its trajectory has done more than just teach us how physics affects space rocks. It has also taught us more about the asteroid age, particularly just how old Dimorphos and its larger companion, Didymos, are.
See, just before impact, NASA’s D.A.R.T. spacecraft took several images of Dimorphos and its companion, and scientists were able to inspect aspects of the asteroids through these images. What they discovered is that these two rocky bodies have a very complicated history.
For example, both asteroids appear to have originated from the...

NASA’s mission to crash D.A.R.T. into an asteroid gave us an unexpected revelation

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A rocket that has spent 15 years in space looks 'remarkably similar' to when it launched

There’s an awful lot of junk floating around in space, with recent estimates suggesting there could be more than 25,000 objects in orbit around the Earth...

A rocket that has spent 15 years in space looks 'remarkably similar' to when it launched

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