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If you're feeling stuck and wonder what it might be like to be in the vastness of the universe, here are the greatest movies ...
One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...
The asteroid, also known as Kamoʻoalewa, is a strange little object just 40 metres wide. It orbits the Sun in sync with Earth, making it a “quasi-moon”, an asteroid that stays close to our planet but ...
Tiny radio probe called GIRO may soon reveal what lies beneath alien worlds with 100x more accuracy than current tech.
An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has ...
To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off interstellar travel, a spacecraft must be very light; therefore, it’s essential to ...
Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid. The little black ...
A nuclear explosion on the asteroid surface itself would risk creating a shotgun blast of fragments still heading for Earth. Mainzer, who is leading an effort to launch a space telescope dedicated ...
President Trump's proposed budget for 2026 threatens NASA's science spending, potentially abandoning the Mars sample return ...
Leveraging satellite imagery, Earth observation is a prime example of where the geospatial field intersects with the space ...
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...
Hubble has captured extraordinary moments in our solar system that were never part of its original mission. From observing ...