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Mystery space rock blazing through solar system ‘may be oldest comet ever seen’ – and there’s a chance you can spot it
AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...
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Astronaut Captures Rare ‘Jellyfish’ Sprite Lightning from Space Over North America
NASA’s astronaut, Nichole “Vapor” Ayers, has photographed a spectacular atmospheric event – a large red ‘jellyfish’ sprite ...
It’s hunting season in orbit as Russia’s killer satellites mystify skywatchers
While US officials are worried about Russian anti-satellite weapons, or ASATs, the behavior of Russia's Nivelir satellites is puzzling. It's clear that Russia is deliberately launching these ...
NASA Astronomers Just Discovered a Comet that Flew Here from Interstellar Space
The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...
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What is space and what’s floating about in it?
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.