An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here’s What That Means
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
Six things to know about SPHEREx, NASA's newest space telescope
Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space ...
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Biophysicist: The existence of intelligent life beyond Earth is ‘highly likely’
The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less than one in 10 billion trillion. Additionally, the chance of a civilization ...
NASA’s new telescope is more powerful than James Webb: Here’s what it could reveal about the Big Bang and the universe
NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a ...
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Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice
A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...
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NASA has created a more powerful James Webb Space Telescope for $488,000,000 to find answers from the beginning of time
NASA is launching a new space telescope more powerful than its James Webb counterpart which will be able to shed more light ...
NASA’s SPHEREx Will Unveil the Hidden Spectrum of the Cosmos
SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...
Hubble Catches a Distant Star’s Explosive Final Act
Hubble Captures a Distant Supernova The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a supernova and its ...
Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury visible to naked eye; Neptune, Uranus with telescope
In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...
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NASA to Preview Sky-Mapping Space Telescope Ahead of Launch at Conference January 31
NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. Friday, January 31, to discuss a new telescope that will search for life in our galaxy.
February is ‘a month of bright planets,’ NASA says in new skywatching update
NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.
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Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...