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1 day ago · Last week, Earth was treated to a rare event: not one, but two large asteroids, passing by within hailing distance. Neither 2024 MK nor 2011 UL21, as the asteroids are named, came close enough to pose a hazard, but both were within range of radar imaging systems. So NASA got a few happy snaps to ...
1 day ago · The sweltering heat could creep close to the world’s record highest temperature of 134 degrees marked at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley on July 10, 1913, according to the National Weather ...
1 day ago · Earth reaches aphelion every July, and this year it occurs on Friday at 1:06 a.m. Eastern time. That Earth has an aphelion is a result of its orbit being elliptical, rather than circular.
4 days ago · The samples, gathered using a drill and a mechanical arm, include up to 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms) of lunar dust and rocks from an ancient crater on the moon’s far side, which is never visible to ...
3 days ago · It’s a claim that Boeing, in particular, seems to bristle at. “The astronauts are not stranded at the ISS,” read the first line of the company’s statement on the matter, which NPR received ...
1 day ago · Earth, third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system in terms of size and mass. Its single most outstanding feature is that its near-surface environments are the only places in the universe known to harbor life. Learn more about development and composition of Earth in this article.
2 days ago · Earth is not the only planet to be hit by solar storms as they billow across interplanetary space. Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has a much weaker magnetic field than Earth ...
