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In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a ...
At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.
The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six times the mass of Jupiter, is the coldest exoplanet ever detected, with an ...
The US space agency NASA said it is tracking an asteroid the size of a house that is passing by Earth at a speed of 68,075 ...
NASA has discovered a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, with the highest recorded impact probability. The likelihood of it hitting ...
One billionaire wants to move industry off-world, returning Earth to a pristine state. The other wants to colonise Mars.
Most fashionistas like to try and stay ahead of the curve. But a new style involves going quite far the other way - around 70 ...
Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...
It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...
NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The space agency released the images Monday, ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...