Space
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Space Rock the Size of Empire State Building Heading Our Way, and Four Other Asteroid Flybys
Is it time? An asteroid measuring somewhere between 250m and 570m (820ft to 1,870ft), possibly taller than the Empire State…
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Large Asteroid Will Fly By Earth In Late April
Asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 will pass within roughly 4 million miles of Earth on April 29, 2020. The asteroid is…
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MIT Researchers Explore Best Ways to Deflect Incoming Asteroids
The threat of a catastrophic asteroid impact probably isn’t very high on anyone’s list of potential doomsday scenarios right now,…
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Fast Radio Burst Puzzles Space Scientists With Repeating 16-Day Cycle
There are at least 50 different theories regarding what fast radio bursts, or FRBs, actually are. A whole wiki is…
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Sadrith Mora On Mars? NASA Considering Homes Made of Fungi
Why build Moon and Mars bases out of metal when we could grow them from mushrooms? That’s a question on…
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The 1965 Gemini 6 Christmas UFO Prank (feat. Jingle Bells)
It was a cold, dark morning in outer space on December 16, 1965. Two astronauts aboard the spacecraft Gemini 6,…
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Studies Find Gas May Be Key to Locating Alien Worlds (And Life)
Do aliens live on toxic, smelly worlds? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by astrobiologist Clara Sousa-Silva, set…
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