See images of the ‘city-killer’ asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth
A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...
NASA's terrifying protocol if asteroid was heading towards Earth as 'exact locations' of potential 2032 collision revealed
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...
Numbers, please! Last image of the earth from 6 billion kilometers away
"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...
What! Are there dolphins on Jupiter? NASA's Juno Probe captures similar images
NASA's Juno Probe captured a cloud formation on Jupiter resembling a dolphin, seen by Brian Swift and Sean Doran. This ...
‘Consider again that dot’: How NASA's Voyager and Carl Sagan showed us Earth like never before
In his book, Sagan wrote: "The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet.
What Makes Pluto So Intriguing
“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...
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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
That's around as wide as Cinderella's Castle in Walt Disney World ... Earth and 130 million miles (209 million kilometers) from the sun. "I find 2024 YR4 to be extremely exciting!" Bryce Bolin ...
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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later
On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...
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NASA astronaut Don Pettit and National Geographic astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi compare stunning star trail photographs
Pettit made a name for himself as an astrophotographer after sharing his image 'Lightning Bugs' in 2012 showing beautiful ...
Curiosity rover captures rare iridescent noctilucent clouds on mars
The clouds, composed of carbon dioxide ice crystals, glow in shades of red, green, and pearlescent hues in the martian ...
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On 95th anniversary of Pluto discovery, its home observatory celebrates solar system’s underdog
Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating and sometimes ...