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How to Watch a Near-Earth Asteroid Zoom Closer to Earth than the Moon
November 09, 2018 | ArticleThree chunky asteroids are zooming by Earth this weekend, and one of them is getting closer to our planet than the moon itself.
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Ripples in Space-Time Could Reveal the Shape of Wormholes
November 07, 2018 | ArticleWormholes are usually illustrated as gaping gravity wells linked by a narrow tunnel, but their precise shape has been unknown — until now.
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Ghostly Orange Light Envelopes Earth During Rare Airglow
November 07, 2018 | ArticleAn eerie, marmalade-colored light show made Earth look like a gigantic orange lollipop early this morning (Nov. 7), prompting an astronaut aboard the International Space Station to snap a photo of it to share with Earthlings down below.
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Harvard Scientists Say Aliens May Explain Bizarre Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua (But Probably Not)
November 06, 2018 | ArticleDoes oddball space object 'Oumuamua's weird acceleration hint at alien origins?
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SpaceX's 'Starman' and Its Tesla Roadster Are Now Beyond Mars
November 04, 2018 | ArticleStarman has put a lot of miles on his ride in the last nine months.
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Black Holes Can Raise the Cosmic Dead
November 01, 2018 | ArticleThe Goldilocks of black holes can resurrect dead stars before killing them again.
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Cold, Dark Stars Lurking in the Universe Could Act Like Single Giant Atoms
October 31, 2018 | ArticleMysterious quantum stars that act like single, monster atoms could form surprisingly quickly.
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Earth Is Being Haunted by a Ghostly Dust Storm — And There May Be More Out There
October 31, 2018 | ArticleCosmic tumbleweeds of dust hover nearly 250,000 miles above our planet, new images reveal.
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A NASA Spacecraft Just Broke the Record for Closest Approach to Sun
October 30, 2018 | ArticleNASA’s Parker Solar Probe just got closer to the sun than any other human-made object in history.
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The Parachute That Will Help Gently Plop the Rover Down on Mars Also Broke a World Record on Earth
October 30, 2018 | ArticleAfter months of testing supersonic parachutes, NASA is confident they have found the one.
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