Comet PANSTARRS Moves Into the Northern Hemisphere This Weekend
Comets visible to the naked eye are a rare delicacy in the celestial smorgasbord of objects in the nighttime sky. Scientists estimate that the opportunity to…
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Another Asteroid Will Zoom Past Earth This Weekend
A newly discovered asteroid the size of a football field will cruise through Earth’s neighborhood this weekend (March 9th), just days after another space rock made…
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Cartoon of Space Invader Created by Gravitational Lens
The universe is eerie enough without giving us an apparition of a 1980s video game alien attacker. This oddball-looking object is really a mirage created by…
Read the articleComet Pan-STARRS Is Plunging Towards the Sun – It’s Visible in Sunset Skies in the Southern Hemisphere
Comet Pan-STARRS (C/2011 L4) is now inside the orbit of Mercury and it is brightening as it approaches the sun. Observers in the southern hemisphere say…
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Van Allen Probes Reveal a New Radiation Belt Around Earth
NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous…
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NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Telescopes Pin Down Black Hole Spin Rate
Two X-ray space observatories, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time,…
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Gravity’s Grip on Earth
Gravity is one of the fundamental forces of nature, its invisible grip governing our planet – from the rocks inside to the seas on the surface.…
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Stellar Motions in Milky Way’s Outer Halo Shed New Light on Galaxy Evolution
Peering deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered tantalizing evidence for the possible…
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11 Experiments Chosen for ESA Jupiter Moons Mission
The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE, will carry a total of 11 scientific experiments to study the gas giant planet and its large ocean-bearing moons,…
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Curiosity Rover Successfully Collects First-Ever Interior Rock Sample on Mars
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on…
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