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Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days — the ...

A teenage student digging through old NASA data has uncovered a hidden trove of over a million cosmic objects using ...

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

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Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

It’s hard to believe, but some reports circulating on social media say there are two moons and there will be for several ...

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A UN-endorsed group focused on planetary defense has locked onto 3I/ATLAS as the mysterious interstellar visitor fuels alien ...