An asteroid nearly the size of a skyscraper will whiz between the Earth and the moon on Saturday in a once-in-a-decade event

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(7-19 Dec. 1972) --- The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program.
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NASA video shows a giant churning tornado on the sun as tall as 14 Earths, hurling plasma into space

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A video taken on March 17, 2023 shows a solar tornado spinning above the sun's surface.
A video taken on March 17, 2023 shows a solar tornado spinning above the sun's surface.

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Adam Driver asked NASA how it plans to save Earth from world-ending asteroids

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Adam Driver arrives at the UK Premiere of the film 'House of Gucci' at Leicester Square in London, Britain.

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Don't let NASA fool you: The next astronauts on the moon will not be wearing black spacesuits

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NASA and Axiom Space unveiled a new spacesuit for the new era of moon missions, but it won't be black on the lunar surface.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful it discovered sand storms on a planet 235 trillion miles away

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An illustration of the exoplanet known as VHS 1256 b.

NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spots a rare star preparing to explode and die in a supernova

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A pre-supernova star, called a Wolf-Rayet star, in near-infrared and mid-infrared via the James Webb Space Telescope.

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RIP AIM: NASA Probe Retires From Observing Clouds at the Edge of Space

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For the past 15 years, a small NASA spacecraft has explored the edge of space, probing the elusive clouds that form in Earth’s mesosphere. But the spacecraft is no longer operating the way it used to, forcing the team to end its mission.

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A NASA Telescope on the Moon's Far Side Would Explore the Universe's 'Dark Ages'

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In a bid to understand even more about our mysterious and massive universe, NASA is partnering with the Department of Energy on an ambitious lunar project.

Here's every key spacesuit NASA astronauts have worn since the 1960s — and the new moon suit it just unveiled

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NASA astronauts have donned a lot of different spacesuits over the decades.

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NASA's Mars Orbiter Appeared to Be Running Out of Fuel—Until It Wasn't

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For nearly two years, NASA engineers had been worried that the fuel supply of the Mars Odyssey orbiter was running low, bringing a tragic end to the precious spacecraft.

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