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Asteroid barrage may have birthed a short-lived ocean on Mars

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Mars may once have had an ocean – but only for a geological blink of an eye, which puts a dampener on ideas that there is or was life on…

See NASA’s First-Ever Asteroid Sample-Collecting Spacecraft in Colorado

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NASA is inviting 25 social media users to apply for a chance to attend a one-day media event to learn about the first-ever NASA mission to travel to an asteroid, retrieve…

Two Comets Just Made Historic Near-Earth Flybys

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A pair of comets zoomed past Earth over the past few days, and their historic one-two flyby punch was caught on video. A telescope in Chile operated by the online Slooh…

Painting an Asteroid to Save Earth

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https://youtu.be/C8tgv9Zl3B4 As an object travels through space it absorbs heat from the sun and emits heat energy in the form of photons. These photons push the asteroid in a certain…

Tracking asteroids

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This article appeared in Boulder Weekly which is not affiliated with Asteroid Day. In December 2004, astronomers in Arizona discovered an asteroid the size of a cruise ship that appeared…