NASA has taken to its official social media to explain the difference between asteroids, comets, and meteorites as they are different. VIEW GALLERY – 4 IMAGES Posted to NASA’s Science Solar System Exploration on July 21, 2022, the space agency outlined the definition of different space rocks. Asteroids are different from comets as they are …
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Are ‘they’ listening? NASA have announced they found an EAR on Mars. On Friday (5 Aug), the US space agency revealed an intriguing image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spaceship. The onboard High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise) camera documented a familiar-shape on a 291 km-high pass over the Red Planet on 7 September …
Asteroid 2022 OC4 is classified as an Apollo class asteroid and it is set to make a dangerously close approach to the Earth today, August 9, according to NASA. Dangerous asteroids have been passing the Earth left and right even as our planet has been narrowly escaping potential crashes. Last week, a 700-feet wide potentially …
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Here is what NASA says about an asteroid that crashed into Earth on March 15, 2022. Earth keeps on pulling objects in outer space towards itself because of its strong gravitational pull. But imagine if every object starts hitting or crashing into the planet! Such events are rare though because when any object from outer …
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NASA has discovered a new Super Earth that’s four times the mass of our planet and located 37 light years from us. Ross 508b “skims in and out of its star’s habitable zone” as per NASA and a year there takes just 10.8 days. The Super Earth orbits an M-type star, just like our Earth …
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A small percentage of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids can put all life on Earth at risk! Know all the asteroids listed by NASA. Earth is surrounded by some celestial neighbors in the soar system and then there are the nasty ones that come calling, threatening to destroy everything in their paths! These are known as Near-Earth …
NASA’s Psyche mission is aimed at studying this unique metal-rich asteroid which may reveal the secrets of collisions and accretion that created planets. NASA is already studying an asteroid named Bennu under its OSIRIS-REx mission to better understand its characteristics. It even plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth for detailed analysis. …
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The interstellar meteor, named CNEOS 2014-01-08, was detected off the coast of Papua New Guinea in January 2014. A meteor from outside our solar system crashed into the Earth back in January 2014 off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The interstellar meteor, known as CNEOS 2014-01-08 is believed to be the first known interstellar …
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NASA has taken to its social channels to share an image snapped by its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that’s tasked with mapping the Red Planet’s geology. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES NASA explains on its website that the above image is a researcher martian ridge that suspect was created from the erosion of the surrounding area …
Last month NASA’s Perseverance rover snapped an image of the martian surface that caused the internet to claw for answers at what was seen in the image. VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES Perseverance managed to capture a strange string-like object in the photograph on July 12, sparking viral internet debate about the origin of the …
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