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The Asteroid Nearing Earth Could Be Worth $195 Billion — Here's The Plan To...
More than 900 new near-Earth asteroids are discovered each year.At least two companies, Planetary Resources and more recently, Deep Space Industries, have announced plans to take advantage of these...
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Astronomers May Have Found The Youngest Blackhole In The Milky Way
And it looks beautiful!From NASA:The highly distorted supernova remnant shown in this image may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The image combines X-rays from NASA's...
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Everything You Need To Know About The Asteroid Narrowly Missing Earth
An asteroid is expected to whip past Earth in the closest approach ever for an object of this size on Friday afternoon.Here's what you need to know: What is the asteroid named? 2012 DA14.Why is it such...
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An Early Look At The Record-Breaking Asteroid Nearing Earth
On Friday, Feb. 15, a 150-foot wide asteroid is expected come within 17,200 miles of Earth's surface, the closet known approach for a space rock of this size. Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be visible through...
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Russian Meteorite Not Related To Record-Close Asteroid Zooming By Earth Today
A meteorite that exploded in the sky over Russia Friday morning is not related to the asteroid expected to fly by Earth this afternoon, a European Space Agency spokesman told the Associated Press. It's...
View ArticleThis Crater Was Not Made By The Russian Meteorite — But It's Still Cool To...
A big meteor exploded over eastern Russia Friday morning. A video of the 11-ton meteor hitting Earth's atmosphere, illuminating the sky with a giant glowing orange ball, is pretty amazing. In the...
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Crazy Images Of The Meteor That Exploded Over Russia
The Russian city of Chelyabinsk was rocked today as it was hit by what appears to have been a meteorite weighing up to 11 tons.At least 400 people have been reported injured, and the photos from the...
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EARTH SURVIVES NEAR PASSAGE OF ASTEROID
Asteroid 2012 DA14, a 150-foot wide hunk of rock, made its closest approach to Earth at 2:25 p.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 15. It was traveling at a fierce 17,450 mph, or about 5 miles per second. The...
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Here's Why Astronomers Did Not Detect The Russia Meteor Ahead Of Time
It was an incredible day for near-Earth objects, with two rare cosmic events occurring on the same day. First, a tiny asteroid actually hit Earth, creating a significant explosion over eastern Russia...
View ArticleAnother Meteor Spotted, This Time Over California
What a week it's been for space-fans!A fireball was spotted streaking across the skies above the Bay Area on Friday evening, within 24 hours of a meteorite strike in Russia and a record-close asteroid...
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Astronauts Have To Deal With Terrifying Meteors All Of The Time
Chris Hadfield, an astronaut on the International Space Station, did an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit this weekend. This is the commander's second live Q&A. The first one was before launch to the ISS...
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Russian Meteor Sets Off Massive 'Gold Rush'
The hunt is on to find fragments of a 55-foot meteor that bust through Earth's atmosphere last week and broke up in the skies above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The meteor's fiery explosion, which released...
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How To Make A Sandwich In Space [VIDEO]
Space food has come a long way from the days of paste in a tube, as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield demonstrates in the video below.From the Canadian Space Agency's YouTube info:Canadian astronaut...
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NASA Restores Communication With The International Space Station After Losing...
Communication has been restored with the International Space Station after the spacecraft lost communication with the ground earlier this morning, NASA reports. The ISS lost communication with the...
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What Would You Ask An Astronaut?
Tomorrow I'm lucky enough to be getting the chance to spend the day at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. for a NASA social event.During my day there, I will get the chance to ask questions of NASA...
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Russians Thought The Meteor Was A Bomb Or Terrorist Attack
A meteor that exploded in the skies above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk alarmed villagers last Friday morning. As the meteor burned up in the Earth's atmosphere, it sent down a shockwave that broke...
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NASA Killed A Bunch Of Fish In Zero-G Experiments
Last October, three astronauts and 32 small fish were sent to the International Space Station, or ISS. The astronauts included commander Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg...
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Every Meteorite That's Slammed Into Earth Since 2300 BC [MAP]
Meteor mania has taken over all corners of the Internet, following a string of close encounters and sightings of flying space rocks. Fragments from a bus-sized meteor that exploded in Earth's...
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Here's Why There Aren't Any Fat People In Space
Today I got the chance to talk to the International Space Station, thanks to a NASA Social meetup. I asked the astronauts currently on the station, NASA's Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn, and Canadian...
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Astronomers Find Tiniest Planet Ever
A new planet named Kepler-37b is just slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It's the tiniest planet yet to be found circling around a star like our sun in a newly discovered planetary system called...
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