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Turns Out It Wasn’t a Comet That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs—And It Didn’t Come from Jupiter
For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away that it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to reach flight ...
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New distant warm Jupiter discovered with TESS
The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2005 b, is about the size of Jupiter and orbits ... 620 have been confirmed so far. Located some 1,070 light years away from the Earth, TOI-2005 is a ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to ...
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Awe-inspiring first: Astronomers capture Jupiter's response to a massive solar wind strike
These events, while far from Earth ... for how such storms might affect Earth. Even though Jupiter is more than 700 million kilometers away, it serves as a giant lab for space weather.