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NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard has issued a new list of five asteroids on approach, with close passes to Earth expected ...
The K-type star Errai - or Gamma Cephei to give it its official name - is the first future North Star on our list. In just 2,200 years Errai will be situated a mere 3 degrees from the north celestial ...
The Axiom Space Ax-4 mission is set to liftoff this month in a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Here's what we know.
There are certain things in life that we have no control over, like the speed of the Earth’s rotation. Well, that’s the case for most of us, anyway. China’s Three Gorges Dam is a rare exception.
NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar is a solitary satellite dish that communicates with spacecraft. In its downtime, the facility's antennas can track objects in space as they pass by Earth ...
NASA explains that the volume of this water has shifted our ... Obviously, this change in the Earth’s rotation won’t have a direct impact on our everyday lives. That said, it’s still an awesome ...
While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...
NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which measures around 1,300 feet in diameter.
One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.
New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.
In collaboration with researchers from Toho University in Japan, NASA researchers have used supercomputers to model and determine how long life will remain possible on Earth. The calculated end ...
But while YR4 was eventually ruled out as a threat during its flyby in 2032, the asteroid passing Earth on Friday, May 9, never posed any danger to begin with. The gigantic space rock, which NASA ...