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Topic: Space (page 8)

A visualization of the Itokawa asteroid, which was visited by the Japanese Hayabusa1 mission. (JAXA/Curtin University)

These old asteroids are indestructible

An artist's concept depicts a greenhouse on the surface of Mars. (NASA/SAIC)

Could we feed a city on Mars?

Lenore Newman, Evan Fraser - The Conversation

This artist’s conception shows a late-stage galaxy merger and its two newly-discovered central black holes. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / M. Weiss, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Black holes on a collision course

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility this year in early March. (NASA/Dan Bartlett)

How to see a comet coming close to Earth

A slice of the El Ali meteorite (Courtesy of University of Alberta Meteorite Collection)

A space rock harbors unknown minerals

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

How NASA is going back to the Moon

The Green Bank Telescope is seen in Green Bank, West Virginia on May 28, 2018. Green Bank is part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless telecommunications signals are banned to prevent transmissions interfering with a number of radio telescopes in the area. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Macy Huston, Jason Wright

An XMM-Newton Mosaic of the Galactic Supernova Remnant HESS J1731-347 (Image courtesy of Victor Doroshenko, Gerd Pühlhofer and ESA / XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

Is this the first "strange star"?

This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA asteroid crash a smashing success

This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA spacecraft collides with asteroid

This artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. This planet is about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth and lies at the edge of the habitable zone around the star, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, could potentially exist. (ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger)

Super-Earths: Larger and more habitable

Chris Impey - The Conversation

Agricultural patterns are distinctly visible in this near-vertical false color infrared photography of farmland south of Khartoum, Sudan taken from STS-66 shuttle Atlantis (JSC/NASA)

Can astronauts grow their own food?

Ajwal Dsouza, Thomas Graham - The Conversation

James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

Webb's first five images explained

For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

Mars, Elon Musk and "For All Mankind"

Perseverance rover on Mars (Getty Images/dima_zel/iStock)

Mars rover adopts a pet rock by accident

Asteroid (Getty Images)

Wealthy nations carving up space riches

Theodora Ogden - The Conversation

Mars surface, canyons (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

No living, smoking gun in Mars meteorite

Black Hole (Getty Images)

A black hole suddenly flips over

Moon or Planet Being Destroyed Explosion (Getty Images/cokada)

Pentagon research proposed nuking moon

Eric Schank, Keith A. Spencer

International Space Station (NASA via Getty Images)

Ukraine war threatens space exploration

Wendy Whitman Cobb - The Conversation

Pete Davidson attends the Triller Fight Club: Jake Paul v Ben Askren at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on April 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for Triller)

Pete Davidson is going to space!

Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm. The image was taken on Feb. 24, 2022, the 3,396th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The “flower,” along with the spherical rock artifacts seen to the right, were made in the ancient past when minerals carried by water cemented the rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Mars' bizarre "flower" rock, explained

Satellite Orbiting Earth (Getty Images/3DSculptor)

Private satellites repurposed for war

Spiral galaxy halo (Getty Images)

Spirituality in space

Adam R. Shapiro - Undark

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