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Earth has an extra companion, a Trojan asteroid that will hang around for 4000 years In 2020, astronomers thought they'd found something incredible: the second so-called Earth Trojan asteroid ever seen. Now, a new team of researchers has confirmed that it's real. Trojan asteroids are small space rocks that share their orbit with a ...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope turns on cameras to look at first star target The images will be taken by Webb's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which first has to cool down to its operational temperature of minus 244 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 153 degrees Celsius).
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SpaceX set to launch top secret spy payload from California A classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office is closed up in the nose cone of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for liftoff Wednesday from California's Central Coast, debuting a brand new booster that will land back near the launch site for reuse on ...
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Mars rover Perseverance collects new sample after clearing pebble clog NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has snagged a sample to replace the material that got stuck in its throat. Perseverance drilled into a rock called Issole on Dec. 29, 2021, collecting its sixth cored sample since touching down inside the Red Planet's ...
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SpaceX's next Starlink mission may fly Wednesday, setting up rocket launch doubleheader SpaceX appears to be targeting Wednesday (Feb. 2) to fly its next batch of Starlink satellites, setting up what could be a coast-to-coast launch doubleheader for the private spaceflight company. According to a forecast from the U.S. Space Force's Delta ...
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NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean Launched in 2000, the space lab has orbited 227 nautical miles above Earth with more than 200 astronauts from 19 different countries enjoying stints aboard -- representing a continuous human presence in space. NASA said that ...
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99 million-year-old flowers found perfectly preserved in amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs The two flowers once bloomed in what is now Myanmar and may shed light on how flowering plants evolved -- a major episode in the history of life that was once described by Charles Darwin as an "abominable mystery.".
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A Chinese space tug just grappled a dead satellite This is one of the ExoAnalytic Solutions observing facilities. The company has over 30 observatories and more than 300 telescopes worldwide. Credit: ExoAnalytic Solutions. A Chinese satellite pulled a defunct navigation satellite out of the way of ...
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Fossils don't just reveal the past. They help predict the future. A fossilized dinosaur skeleton, mounted to look like it is standing, photographed with the A fossilized dinosaur skeleton at the headquarters of CAPPA, a paleontology center in Brazil. In his book ...
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This space rock could lead us to a gold mine of cosmic discoveries Scientists may have just identified the tip of a cosmic motherlode. It's an asteroid traversing the universe alongside Earth, and its discovery story is a cinematic masterpiece. The scientific saga begins in December 2020. On ...
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