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Protecting Earth from asteroids is complicated and requires global cooperation
Detecting, tracking and stopping asteroids is a sprawling, interconnected effort.
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2nd huge eruption from the sun hammers Venus
It was “no run-of-the-mill event.”
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NASA finds some asteroids ‘prematurely aged’ by the sun
Scientists on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission recently learned that surface regeneration is much faster on asteroids than on Earth. By analyzing cracks in rocks on asteroid Bennu from high-resolution images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, the team found that the sun’s heat fractures rocks on Bennu in just 10,000 to 100,000 years.
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With Over 8000 Satellites In Space, Chinese Scientists Use ‘New Technique’ To Clean Up Threatening Space Junk
Chinese space scientists used an enormous space sail to deorbit a recently launched Long March 2 rocket, China’s state-owned Global Times reported on July 6. This was the first such experiment ever performed on a rocket.
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China to explore outer solar system with nuclear-powered Neptune orbiter
Chinese planetary scientists and engineers are looking to the outer solar system and developing new ways to get there, according to a proposal for a Neptune orbiter.
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Humans may achieve interstellar migration on a “wandering planet”
At some point in the future, we may have to leave our solar system.
