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Space.com

A newly discovered, “potentially hazardous” asteroid almost the size of the world’s tallest skyscraper is set to tumble past Earth just in time for Halloween, according to NASA. The asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an estimated diameter of between 1,083 …

SpaceCoastDaily.com

(NASA) – NASA announced the agency will target a launch period opening on Oct. 10, 2023, for its Psyche mission to go forward. Earlier this year, Psyche missed its planned 2022 launch period as a result of mission development problems, leading to an …

University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily

NASA has selected the School of Engineering and Applied Science to work on technology that can hopefully be applied for future missions to the moon as it prepares to launch Artemis and return astronauts to the moon. With the last manned mission to the …

WFTV Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. — A recent discovery by NASA’s InSight lander could have implications for NASA’s future plans to send astronauts to the red planet. On Dec. 24, 2021, NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 Marsquake that scientists later learned was …

Duluth News Tribune

Temperatures may plummet in November, but the heavens are heating up! Check out the latest night-sky calendar. Total eclipse May 2022. The fully eclipsed moon is dark enough to see stars right up to its edge. Binoculars provide the best view.

USA TODAY

Live Science reports that the asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an estimated diameter of 1,083-2,428 feet or 330-740 meters, just under Dubai’s 2,716-foot-tall Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. The asteroid will barely pass our planet at around …

CNET

And every seven years or so, our planet visits a particularly dense pocket of the cosmic detritus that can produce fire in the sky just in time for some fiery Halloween celestial spookiness. The last …

FOX 6 Milwaukee

Scientists revealed Thursday that two of its Mars robots recorded a sizable quake, leaving a crater bigger than any ever recorded in the solar system. The Mars Insight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake on December 24, but scientists only recently …

OPB News

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) this week captured an image of the sun in ultraviolet light featuring three dark patches that look like a smiling face — a face that could signal a solar storm with problems for Earth. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR:.

New York Post

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory discovered the sun developed a face-like pattern in its atmosphere. While unrelated, the “smile” emerged following a partial solar eclipse on Tuesday. Seen in ultraviolet light, the …