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NASA Confirms Apophis Asteroid Pass Within 20,000 Miles of Earth

NASA has confirmed that the 1,200-foot Apophis asteroid — one of the largest near-Earth objects ever tracked — will pass ...
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NASA’s exoplanet mission accidentally discovers a world it was never meant to find

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

Colorful 'painting-like' ripples cover an ancient seafloor structure the Bahamas — Earth from space

A 2020 satellite photo shows off the ethereal beauty of submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in the Great Bahama Bank. This massive underwater structure is as old as the dinosaurs and has been ...
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NASA selects proposals for new line of Earth science missions

NASA selected for development a smallsat mission called GRATTIS to test new sensors for measuring the Earth's gravitational field. Credit: Univ. of Florida/Simon Barke WASHINGTON — NASA has ...

Would you spend a year pretending to live on Mars? NASA wants volunteers

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...
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Terraforming Venus means removing 90 Earth atmospheres of carbon dioxide, cooling a planet that melts lead, and importing an ocean — the newest NASA idea s…

Venus crushes, roasts, and corrodes anything that touches it, and it has almost no water. But fifty kilometers up, the ...
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NASA pushes ahead with Earth System Observatory despite uncertain budgets

WASHINGTON — NASA is making progress on a multibillion-dollar series of Earth science missions amid uncertainty about their funding for the next year. In town hall sessions at the Fall Meeting of ...