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UVA Astronomer Explains the Threat of ‘City Killer’ Asteroids and How Earth Can Prepare
NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...
Happy 95th birthday Pluto
An amateur astronomer discovered Pluto 95 years ago today. The former planet will complete an orbit in another 153 years.
The Red Planet: Mars is actually many colors. At the surface, we see colors such as brown, gold, and tan, however, Mars looks reddish due to oxidization or rusting of iron in ...
From its peculiar reddish colour, to whether life ever existed on Mars, NASA has unlocked several secrets of the red planet over the decades. Check out these 7 stunning NASA images of Mars that reveal ...
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"Origin of Phobos and Deimos"
Robin Canup, associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), will give a talk titled "Origin of Phobos and Deimos" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 2, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture ...
Investopedia18d
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO): Definition and How It Works
Jean Folger has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer covering real estate, investing, active trading, the economy, and retirement planning. She is the co-founder of PowerZone Trading, a ...
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OTD In Space – January 29: Phobos 2 Enters Orbit Around Mars
This was the last space mission launched by the Soviet Union. Its primary purpose was to study Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Its journey to the Red Planet took about 6 and a half months ...
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Planet Parade 2025: Which planets are aligning in January and February? Fascinating facts about them
From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignment peaks on January 25 and Mercury joins the ...
Space.com25d
Newly discovered super-Earth orbits in and out of its star's habitable zone. Could life survive its extreme climate?
HD 20794d orbits its star with two other super-Earth planets, designated b and c, which orbit their star every 18.3 and 89.6 days, respectively. These were discovered in 2011 by a team of Geneva ...
Space.com25d
An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests
A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.
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There's more than just gravity at work in the solar system
It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites, but there are other forces that have shaped our planetary neighborhood. A new paper discusses how recoiling ice from comets can ...
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Settling the Martian Mars Phobos & Deimos
The Red Planet beckons us toward it, and the day draws closer when humans will walk on its dusty surface, and the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos, may be our gateway to that future. Daytona 500 ...