NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
New NASA imagery shows a large asteroid could impact Earth in 2032
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures First Starfield Images From Deep Space
NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...
NASA releases video and images of asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032; here's what it could harm
NASA has released the first video of asteroid 2024 YR4, a 200-foot-wide space rock that has a 1.3% chance of striking Earth in 2032.
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James Webb Space Telescope images bacteria-size dust grains — they'll likely turn into exoplanets
Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...
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NASA’s LEXI imager will provide the first-ever global images of Earth’s magnetosphere
A groundbreaking X-ray imager is on its way to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's magnetic defenses. This ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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Odds of an asteroid impact in 2032 just went up. Here's why experts say you shouldn't worry
A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...
Space calendar 2025: Here are the moments you won't want to miss
Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...
NASA Images Reveal Massive Fires in Baja California
Satellite imagery has captured smoke billowing from wildfires south of the border, fueled by similar conditions to the devastating blazes in Los Angeles.
Astronomers Orbiting TRAPPIST-1 Star Could Be Peering Back At Earth
A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...
Multinational research project shows how life on Earth can be measured from space
An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...