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Guest blog: From Orbit to Earth - Satellites, a Tool for Climate Mitigation
Guest blog by Luisa Doughty, Mission Manager and Sarah Cheesbrough, Misson Manager at the Satellite Applications Catapult.
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
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SpaceX launches 2 Maxar Earth-observing satellites to orbit (video, photos)
As that description notes, the WorldView Legion spacecraft are capable of resolving features as small as 12 inches (30 ...
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UN’s Unprecedented Response to Asteroid Threat: A Global Wake-Up Call
The United Nations has activated its Planetary Security Protocol for the first time in history. The catalyst for this ...
How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
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Scientists Warn an Asteroid the Size of a Football Field Could Strike Earth and Destroy an Entire City
The massive space rock with the risk of hitting Earth's surface within the next seven years has kept scientists on their toes ...
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NASA Launching ‘Blue Ghost’ Spacecraft to Investigate Mysterious Domes on the Moon
NASA is working with Firefly Aerospace to construct the Blue Ghost 3 mission to investigate mysterious moon domes.
Blue Origin to simulate lunar gravity during New Shepard launch: How to watch
A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-77 Chance of Hitting Earth. Here's What It Would Do
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...