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Scientists Strike ‘Scientific Gold’ in California
Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by astronomer Dr. Peter Jennisken. (NASA) Researchers have struck scientific gold at Sutter’s Mill, site of the famed California Gold Rush where...
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Astronauts Warn of Catastrophic Asteroid Strikes
Asteroid impacting Earth (NASA) Three former astronauts are sounding the alarm about the dangers our planet faces from asteroid impacts and how steps must be taken now to protect against a catastrophic...
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Rare and Spectacular Meteor Shower May Light Up the Skies Over North and...
A meteor from the August 2009 Perseid meteor shower streaks across the Texas night sky. (Jared Tennant via Wikimedia Commons) If you live in North or Central America, you just might have front row...
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Science Images of the Week
The Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew of Alexander Gerst of Germany, Maxim Suraev of Russia, and Reid Wiseman of the U.S., blasts off from the launch pad at the...
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Science Images of the Week
A man attending Gamescom 2014, Europe’s largest video games trade show, tries on Sony’s “Project Morpheus” virtual reality headset. Gamescom 2014 runs through Sunday, August 17, 2014 in Cologne,...
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NASA Creates New Office to Protect Us from Asteroid and Comet Impact
Asteroid impacting Earth (NASA) NASA is taking the potential threat posed by near earth objects (NEO’s), such as asteroids and comets, more seriously than ever and has established the new Planetary...
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October 2017 Science Images
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, was capturing images of the Sun when it was “photobombed” by the moon during a lunar transit on 10/19/17. The space agency says the transit lasted about 45...
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Scientists estimate that thousands of extraterrestrial rocks enter our atmosphere every year, most of which burn up or fragment into smaller pieces before hitting Earth. Here’s how the Center for...
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