Near miss: Giant asteroid TWO MILES wide travelling at 40,000mph zooms
EARTH had a lucky escape this weekend when a huge asteroid that was heading for the planet skimmed past in what NASA has described as a 'near …
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COMIC: Our sun was born with thousands of other stars. Where did they all go?
The sun sits alone at the center of our solar system — but it was actually born in a giant cloud alongside thousands of other stars. So where did all those stars go? The Science of Siblings Astrophysicists Jeremy Webb and Natalie Price-Jones explain what may have happened to the sun's siblings — and …
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As NASA prepares to return humans to the Moon permanently, we ask: how long is a day on the Moon?
A day on the Moon is very different to what we know as a day here on Earth. This is obvious when you think about it: a different body of the Solar …
Astronomeow! Why cats are the best companions for stargazers and astronomers
Some of us revel in the solitude of darkness and the accompanying silence when observing the night sky, as we connect in our own special way with the …
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Woman's 'nobody ever actually dies' theory is blowing people's minds: 'My brain cannot handle this'
The woman had people baffled when she said that we all are living in a parallel universe and backed her idea with the Quantum Immortality theory. No …
Asteroid being captured by NASA worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 would make everyone on Earth a billionaire
While the mission may have set off many months ago now, people remain intrigued by one particular NASA operation. Last summer, the space agency …
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Physicist Studying SARS-CoV-2 Virus Believes He Has Found Hints We Are Living In A Simulation
A physicist studying mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus claims to have found evidence for a new law of physics termed the "second law of …