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October’s new moon brings us a “ring of fire” solar eclipse.
The new moon will occur on Saturday (October 14), at 1:55 pm EDT (1755 GMT), according…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its way to a metal-rich asteroid
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, will lift off from Kennedy Space Center’s…
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NASA’s Psyche mission to the metallic asteroid
Image credits: Aubrey Gemignani/NASA/Getty Images Good luck, psychic. NASA’s large spacecraft is now officially on its…
OPINION: Physicist shares his plan to observe a solar eclipse
Editor’s note: Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is an…
Scientists find a great practical use for ping pong balls: ScienceAlert
A new study proves that if you find yourself bothered by low-frequency urban sounds — like…
Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia may contain elements outside the periodic table
Some asteroids are dense. So dense, in fact, that they may contain heavy elements outside the…
The building blocks of life? NASA reveals a sample of the asteroid Bennu, 4.5 billion years old
Preliminary studies conducted by NASA on the asteroid Bennu sample, which was brought to Earth, revealed…
NASA has revealed a pristine sample collected from a near-Earth asteroid
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NASA reveals OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample today: Watch it live
NASA will reveal to the world today (October 10) the fruits of its first asteroid sample…