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Russian ASAT test adds risk to Solar Orbiter's super close Earth flyby

A solar probe on a mission to take the closest ever images of the sun will pass incredibly close to Earth today, but debris from the recent Russian anti-satellite missile test will make its visit more risky and unpredictable.

The TRAPPIST-1 solar system not bombarded by space rocks like early Earth, study suggests

TRAPPIST-1 would be an unremarkable star if not for the scientific interest generated by its seven planets. Astronomers first spotted the new worlds, at least three of which might be habitable, in 2016. Now, a new study suggests that the way the ...

Russian cargo ship departs space station to make room for new docking module

The automated Progress 78 cargo ship, also known as Progress MS-17, undocked from Russia's Nauka science module on the station at 6:22 a.m. EST (1122 GMT) and is doomed to a fiery disposal in Earth's atmosphere.

Hubble telescope captures stunning image of the star-forming Prawn Nebula

The Prawn Nebula, formally known as IC 4628, is an emission nebula located 6,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpius. Nebulas, or clouds of interstellar gas and dust, form following massive stellar explosions; in turn, this interstellar ...

Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider

In a paper published today in the journal Physical Review D, the researchers describe how they observed six neutrino interactions during a pilot run of a compact emulsion detector installed at the LHC in 2018. "Prior ...

NASA Is Practicing Asteroid Deflection. You Know, Just in Case.

The Atlantic

The Atlantic

A spacecraft is on its way to nudge a distant asteroid. By Marina Koren. An illustration of an asteroid knocking into the planets of the solar system ...

Orbital harmony limits late arrival of water on TRAPPIST-1 planets

"After rocky planets form, things bash into them," said astrophysicist Sean Raymond of the University of Bordeaux in France. "It's called bombardment, or late accretion, and we care about it, in part, because these impacts can be an important source of ...

Lunar Regolith Stores Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion Humans for 1 Lakh Years! Can We Extract or Use it?

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

Our home planet has been supporting life for billions of years. But for more than a billion years since the formation of the Earth, its atmosphere was devoid of oxygen. Multiple factors led to the gradual oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere around ...

After review, NASA resumes work toward December 22 launch for James Webb Space Telescope

CBS News

CBS News

The powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and one of the most expensive science projects in history originally was targeted for takeoff December 18 atop an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket, a contribution from the European Space Agency.

'Super jelly' can survive being run over by a car

Researchers have developed a jelly-like material that can withstand the equivalent of an elephant standing on it, and completely recover to its original shape, even though it's 80% water. The soft-yet-strong material, developed by a team at the ...