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Good News! – Asteroid Said To Hit Earth Is Going To Miss!
Asteroid Said To Hit Earth Is Going To Miss! It seems that once or twice a year, we are greeted with the news that something is on the way to destroy planet earth. Most often taking the form of an asteroid (of increasingly hyperbolic sizes) and occasionally aliens, it seems that…
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Japan Release Images From Asteroid Landers
Japan Release Images From Asteroid Landers After spending a couple days nervously tracking an asteroid, the Japanese Space Agency launched two rovers on Friday. The success of the landing was, however, very unclear. Put simply, they had to wait to see if any data starting coming back to earth. Well,…
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NASA To Deploy 10 SmallSat Missions to Explore Solar System
NASA plans to launch 10 ambitious projects that will explore the various celestial bodies our solar system. These missions usually cost a lot more as they required the launch of large satellites equipped with powerful instruments but advancements in satellite technology have made it possible to send out much smaller…
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NASA Launches Four New Teams to Explore Solar System
With recent discoveries like the seven Earth-like exoplanets found orbiting a distant star, it can be easy to forget that our own, humble Solar system is vast, exotic domain which remains mostly unexplored. Following a remit, compelled by Congress, to venture to Mars by 2033, NASA has announced that it…
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NASA Plans Quadrillion-Dollar Asteroid Mining Mission
NASA has unveiled an ambitious plan to voyage to one of our most intriguing local, metal-rich asteroids. 16 Psyche is located within the Solar system – one of many asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter – and may be the remnants of a long-lost planet, impact-blasted down to…
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Russia Has Plans to Nuke Asteroids
We’ve seen the movies. I’m thinking about the one with Bruce Willis in, the asteroid hurtling towards earth and a timer that just won’t stop ticking. I am course referring to Armageddon, a film in which an asteroid could end all life on earth. We’ve heard the chances of asteroids…
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NASA Forms Task Force to Defend the Planet from Asteroids
NASA is preparing to be able to prevent one of the few existential threats to our planet and humanity: giant asteroids. To this end, they have formerly re-designated the ongoing program that currently works to track and detect hazardous near-Earth objects as the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). Their responsibilities…
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Mine An Asteroid and Its Yours – You Just Have to Get There First
We have known for a long while that the resources we have on Earth and under it, are limited. With an expanding population and growing lifespan, it’s becoming more and more necessary to find alternative sources of resources. With a billionaire seeking to mine the moon, we could soon be…
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Scientists Will Move an Asteroid off Course as Part of a Test
It’s happened before and it will definitely happen again sometime in the planet’s future. I’m talking about an asteroid impact, of course, the like of which could obliterate the majority of life on earth, including humans. The good news is that scientists are actively working on ways to prevent such…
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Super Rich Asteroid Expected To Pass By Earth
A mega rich asteroid is expected to pass Earth this Sunday (July 19th) which is both extremely large and is also the richest known asteroid is space. The gigantic rock is named UW-158 and has an approximate core weight of 90 million tonnes. To put this into perspective, Guinness World…
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Astronauts Might Be Able to Play with Lasers from the International Space Station Soon
According to ScienceDirect, a few researchers have come up with a plan to turn the International Space Station into a defence system against asteroids or other ‘orbiting debris’. How cool is that? Get a paid vacation in space… float around the room… and have some lasers to play around with!…
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NASA Building Largest Rocket of All Time, Will Launch in 2018
NASA are cooking up something big, very big! The simple-named Space Launch System, a 384 feet tall rocket, the biggest ever created. To put this into perspective the Saturn V was just 363 feet and that one took us to the moon. The new rocket will also offer up 20% more…
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Massive Asteroid To Pass Earth Next Week And You Can Watch It Via Webcam
A massive asteroid (2000 EM26) will be passing earth on the 17th of February, and while it’s still 0.018 AU away from the earth it is classed as a ‘potentially hazardous’ object. No need to be worried though, 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) is the distance between the Earth and the…
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Space Drilling Could Become Reality In Less Than 5 Years, First Stop… The Moon?
If I am to know my geography right, we have plenty of water as it is on our planet. However, a Sudbury-based company in Ontario, Canada, has developed a space drill which could be operational within the next 5 years. Their first ‘target’ seems to be the Moon, where the…
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Asteroid Could Collide With Earth, But Not Until 2880 Say Scientists
There’s nothing like a good apocalyptic news story to get you intrigued, but thankfully we are not the bringers of doom today. Cleveland Leader reports that Scientists have discovered an asteroid on a potential collision path with the earth. The asteroid in question is the “1950 DA” which was spotted…
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