asteroid

Perched atop the windswept heights of Chile’s Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its ambitious survey of the night sky, capturing the universe in unprecedented detail with the world’s largest digital camera. In its very first ten hours of operation, the...

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Microsoft is pushing the envelope once again—this time by blurring the line between space exploration and conversational AI. Imagine chatting with a deep space probe as it sails near Mars, fine-tuning its trajectory and sending back mesmerizing images from its mission to study asteroids that...

Neat Op-ed by Newt Gingrich: "If the Asteroid Had Missed," If the Asteroid Had Missed - Newt Gingrich Wow, that is interesting. Never crossed my mind, but it would be an interesting study to see what types of life forms would survive such creatures as those roaming around in those times...

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When the Lyrid meteor shower hits full strength Friday and Saturday morning, it will mark a sort of planetary triple crown: Earth Day, Good Friday and Passover. The Lyrids are one of the oldest known showers, creating a light show usually seen easily from Earth -- and completely harmless...

LOS ANGELES – NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects. Link Removed due to 404 Error Many of the targets in the celestial...

After 50 years of searching the heavens with radio telescopes to try to contact alien life, so far the attempts of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists seem to have fallen on deaf ears. So is there another way to try to find aliens in our galactic neighborhood? Some...

Would you bet your life in a 1-300 chance? SPACE.com -- Asteroid With Chance of Hitting Earth in 2029 Now Being Watched 'Very Carefully'