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Dimorphos is a moonlet asteroid that orbits a larger parent asteroid known as Didymos. Neither pose a threat to Earth, but the double-asteroid system was a perfect target to test deflection technology because Dimorphos’ size is comparable to asteroids that …

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As the universe balloons outward in all directions, light traveling toward us gets “redshifted,” and the redshifted light in this case indicates a cloak of thick gas and dust shrouding the black hole.

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Ground-based radar systems could have a unique role to play in planetary defense, helping humanity protect Earth by spotting asteroids and comets on potentially devasting collision courses with our planet. This was the conclusion reached by National …

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An artist’s impression depicts a dead white dwarf star and its magnetic field, which is usually invisible but shown in loops around the star. The dark area near one of the star’s poles is a metal scar that remained after the star consumed a planetary …

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Crew-8 includes NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (commander), Michael Barratt (pilot), and Jeanette Epps (mission specialist), along with mission specialist Alexander Grebenkin, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

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The massive outburst emitted 100,000 trillion times more energy than the sun will over its entire lifetime. A strange chain of ‘stellar jewelery’ made of star clusters formed around a powerful black hole eruption. (Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/O.

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Scientists have developed a new computer model that simulates how moon dust behaves in lunar gravity. They hope it will help future robotic moon explorers to do their job more safely. A simulation of lunar regolith falling through a funnel.

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“It means we can do it,” Dyson told Space.com Monday (Feb. 26) in an exclusive interview before she returns to space next month. “We’re going back [to …

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The AR3590 sunspot region is the largest of the solar cycle and is responsible for the most powerful solar flare seen since 2017. Comments (0). (Left) AR3590 the largest sunspot of the current solar cycle (Right) AR3590.

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Thwaites Glacier in West Antartica in 2019. Robert Larter. CNN —. Scientists have looked back in time to reconstruct the past …