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New interstellar comet will keep a safe distance from Earth, NASA says
NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...
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A rare interstellar comet is headed our way in October. Here's how you could view it
Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 168 — "Survivor: NASA"
On Episode 168 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik jump into the headlines, and boy are there a lot of them! Welcome to the "Survivor: NASA" edition!
Astronomers think newly discovered comet may be way older than the sun
The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...
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NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
NASA warns of giant interstellar comet of unknown origin crossing the solar system
A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...
NASA discovers third interstellar comet
July 3 (UPI) -- NASA discovered the third interstellar comet through a survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. The ...
Mysterious Manhattan-sized interstellar comet spotted blasting through solar system: NASA
These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...