NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off another 5 percent of workforce
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is reducing its workforce by 5 percent, or 325 employees, amid budget cuts and issues with ...
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Taurid meteor shower to light up the night sky. Here's how you can see it
The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that broke up about 10,000 years ago.
DART's Asteroid Impact Produced Debris Cloud - Watch Its Evolution Over 1 Month
The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
NASA alert! 'God of Chaos' asteroid approaching Earth on November 13 sparks worldwide concern
The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set to pass by Earth on November 13th. While scientists assure it ...
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The Taurid meteor shower will light up the sky tonight. Here's how to watch.
The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October and November. They may have originated from a comet that ...
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An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024
Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
Hera burns towards Mars
ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...
MIT scientists study particles from distant asteroid for clues to the outer solar system’s origin
We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
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Bennu asteroid samples get close-up look at Brown for clues into life’s origin
Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to better understand the solar system’s early history and the origins of materials ...
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Earth Has a Temporary Mini-Moon Until Thanksgiving: Here's What That Means
The asteroid won't complete a full orbit of Earth ... It's unlikely you'll see the mini-moon. NASA says the absolute magnitude of 2024 PT5 is 27.593. That means it's quite dim and won't be ...