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Having been initiated in 2011, NASA’s NEOWISE mission has recently concluded its work after identifying more than 3,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs), which are asteroids and comets that can potentially hit...

NASA has officially decommissioned the NEOWISE space telescope, marking the end of a 15-year mission that significantly advanced our understanding of near-Earth objects (NEOs) and contributed to planetary defense efforts....

NASA's NEOWISE mission, an essential part of the agency's planetary defense efforts, is nearing its end after a remarkable 14-year run. The spacecraft, which has significantly advanced our understanding of...

Tonight, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) will be visible in the night sky, marking a rare opportunity to see a bright comet passing 44 million miles from Earth. Observers in the…

In a remarkable achievement, NASA's citizen science program has led to the discovery of a hypervelocity object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour. This object,...

Posted on Apr 22, 2021 in Science “With the wake we have a brand new testing ground for theories of dark matter,” wrote Harvard astrophysicist Rohan Naidu in an email...

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NASA’s Scout system, which is located at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, flagged a newly discovered comet object as possibly being interstellar. if confirmed as interstellar, it would...

Posted on Jul 28, 2019 in Alien Life, Astronomy, Evolution, Extraterrestrial Life, NASA, News, Physics, Science, Space, Technology What’s buried in the data? “The team is currently focused on finding...

Posted on Feb 8, 2019 in Astronomy, Science A “very rare species” of asteroid called 2019 AQ3, part of a vast and virtually unknown population zooming through the inner solar...