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Space News: NASA finds asteroid Bennu 'aged early' by Sun

Scientists from NASA's OSIRIS-REx have found that the Sun's heat fractures rocks on Bennu in just 10,000 to 100,000 years, revealing that surface regeneration happens a lot quicker on asteroids than on Earth.

Jul 25, 2022

Climate Patterns Thousands of Miles Away Affect US Bird Migration: NASA Study

Every spring, migratory birds arrive migrate to the US from south and central America to breed but the timing varies depending on large-scale climate patterns originating thousands of miles away.

Jul 21, 2022

Musk's dad confirms secret second child with his stepdaughter

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk, has claimed he's had a second unplanned child with his 35-year-old stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout.

Jul 15, 2022

China's asteroid deflection test by 2026 to protect earth from doomsday space rocks

China's new move is expected to protect the earth if a doomsday asteroid approaches the planet

Jul 15, 2022

Use Starlink carefully as Russia can hit network, Musk warns Ukrainians

Elon Musk's SpaceX sends 46 Starlink satellites into orbit; further boosts connectivity [details]

Billionaire Elon Musk's space venture SpaceX has successfully launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.

Jul 11, 2022

NASA's microwave oven-sized Cubesat communications fail enroute to Moon; How it affects mission

After leaving orbit, NASA's CAPSTONE mission -- a microwave oven-sized CubeSat -- has faced communications issues on its way to the Moon, the US space agency has said.

Jul 6, 2022

NASA is working on asteroid deflecting machine

Deadly asteroid killed dinosaurs; but cockroaches survived, how?

The asteroid impact that happened around 66 million years ago was so devastating and it sent plumes of debris into mighty heights of the earth's atmosphere

Jul 4, 2022

Will asteroid 2021 QM1 hit earth on April 02, 2052? ESA has the answer

Several space experts strongly believe that deadly events like asteroid hits are not confined to the past

Jul 3, 2022

NASA's sun gazing spacecraft captures solar eclipse in space [details]

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has captured the Moon passing in front of the Sun.

Jun 30, 2022

NASA goes public, throws open 16 years of data for scan to find clouds on Mars [Details]

By identifying clouds in data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the public can increase scientists' understanding of the Red Planet's atmosphere.

Jun 29, 2022

Space News: NASA halts Psyche asteroid mission, designed to study a metal-rich asteroid

NASA has cancelled its planned 2022 launch attempt of the Psyche asteroid mission -- the agency's first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid.

Jun 27, 2022

First Qatari woman, Al-Thani to conquer Everest, also scales Mt Lhotse peak

News of the first Qatari woman to summit Mt Everest has grabbed media headlines in the country of 2.7 million where close to 85 per cent of the population is expatriate.

Jun 1, 2022

1.1 miles long asteroid named "1989 JA" to zoom past Earth this week, closest to Earth in the next 172 years

A "potentially hazardous" enormous asteroid that is more than a mile long will zoom past Earth on May 27, according to NASA's Centre for Near Earth Object Studies

May 25, 2022

Nepal's Kami Rita climbs Mt Everest for 26th time, sets new world record

Nepal's Kami Rita climbs Mt Everest for 26th time, breaks his own previous world record setting new one

Nepals legendary climber Kami Rita Sherpa, 52, claimed the Mt Everest, the tallest peak in the world, for the 26th time on Saturday to set a new world record.

May 7, 2022

US government's plot to nuke the Moon revealed

Recently discovered papers from a top-secret US government program hint that the country was interested in mining the moon using nuclear weapons

Apr 26, 2022

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