Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
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NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon
The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...
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Rare comet may be visible for first time in 160,000 years
Nasa said the future brightness of a comet is "notoriously hard" to predict, but that Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) could remain bright enough to be seen by the naked eye. On Monday, the comet was at ...
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Brightest of 2025 yet?: Rare sun-skirting comet may light up skies for 1st time in 160,000 years
The comet, discovered in Chile by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on April 5, 2024, may brighten enough to be visible to the naked eye in the coming days this week ...
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Study reveals tiny plastic particles' impact on terrestrial food webs
Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) -- plastic particles and fibers ranging from one nanometre to five millimetres in size -- pose ...
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Space weather forecast: Strong support from incoming administration
Efforts to better understand the sun, produce timely warnings of heightened geomagnetic activity and mitigate the terrestrial impact have been reinforced by successive Obama, Trump and Biden ...
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Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon
Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...
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Rare comet set to appear for first time in 160,000 years
A super rare comet could appear in the night sky later this week. It's thought that Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) could be seen across the globe for the first time in 160,000 years. Nasa says it's hard ...
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Why didn’t we see it earlier? – This asteroid eluded NASA and all mankind
On October 22, at 09:08 UT, the ATLAS-HKO (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System-Haleakalā Observatory) asteroid monitoring program discovered a small object that was not expected to be very ...
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Photographer captures rare image of comet from the UK
Potentially the brightest of 2025, the comet was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Chile on April 5, 2024. At the time it was about 4.38 AU (655 million ...
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See comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) as viewed from Earth's orbit
It was first spotted by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System last year, when it was 600 million kilometres away. Its orbit around the sun takes 160,000 years, so we have a long ...
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Surprise comet that ‘shines brighter than Venus’ set to light up night sky over Ireland tonight – and last three days
The team at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System assumed the comet wouldn't survive its orbit past the sun. But the comet took astronomers by surprise as later sightings of it ...