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What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.
Risks with current Artemis 3 moon landing plan ‘may be too high,’ NASA safety group says
An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space agency's Artemis undertaking to return astronauts to the moon.
What was the mysterious space signal scientists discovered in 2024? Here are some possibilities
Scientists found a new kind of cosmic signal in 2024, and still aren't quite sure what's causing it.
How to watch NASA’s 1st Twitch stream from the ISS this week
NASA's first-ever Twitch stream premieres at 11:45 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 12 on NASA's Twitch channel.
AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.
Did Covid lockdowns really cause temperatures on the moon to drop?
Scientists have been arguing about a curious topic recently: Did temperatures on the moon dip due to the world's Covid-19 lockdown?
Scientists ‘dust for fingerprints’ around a young star as it births exoplanets
How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field of an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it.
Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope discovers stunning Einstein ring in warped space-time (image)
The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about dark matter at the heart of a distant galaxy.
World’s fastest supercomputer ‘El Capitan’ goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third exascale computer.