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Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons still captivating scientists decade later
It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...
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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Mysterious space object may be oldest comet ever discovered, scientists say
A mystery interstellar object has been identified as the "oldest comet ever seen", according to scientists. The Oxford ...
Comet believed to be 3 billion years older than our solar system
Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...
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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 ...