NASA tracks a giant, 100-foot, airplane-sized asteroid set for a close encounter with Earth today
YZ9 is set to approach Earth on 6 January. The asteroid is about 100 feet wide, similar to a large aircraft. It will travel at 19,091 miles per hour. At its closest, ...
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Earth's First Planetary Defense
Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins AP ...
Are We Safe? NASA Warns Of Massive 100-ft Asteroid Racing Towards Earth At 30723 KMPH Tomorrow: Check Time, Distance And More
A Big 100-foot asteroid is set to make its close distance towards Earth tomorrow. Is it potentially hazardous? Know all the ...
Scientists are baffled after discovering a unique asteroid-comet hybrid that's like NOTHING seen before
Scientists from the University of Central Florida have used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal that a mysterious object ...
Space Coast launch schedule
The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...
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This Strange Comet-Asteroid Hybrid Is Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...
Asteroid-comet hybrid stuns scientists: ‘Like nothing we’ve seen before’
Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...
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Spacecraft makes closest-ever fly-by of Sun: what the trip will tell us
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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Close Readings
In 1946 Evelyn Waugh declared that 20th-century society – ‘the century of the common man’, as he put it – was so degenerate that satire was no longer possible. But before reaching that conclusion he ...