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A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

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Dramatic dashcam footage captured this week showed something that wouldn’t be out of place in a sci-fi film – space coming to ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hiratsuka City Museum) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Musi ...

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The large space rock, named 2024 YR4, was originally thought to have a 3.1 per cent possibility of smashing into our planet on 22 December 2032. But fresh data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...

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A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much ...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) holds a press conference on the upcoming 10th Space Day of China in Beijing, ...

A German start-up built a rocket with the hope of launching satellites into orbit from Europe in the future. But the test flight, the first of its kind from continental Europe, failed. https://p ...