A green comet called C/2022 E3 (ZTF), or Comet ZTF for short, is nearing its closest approach to Earth for the first time since the ice age. Comet ZTF will come within 26 million...
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‘Extraordinarily Close’ Asteroid About to Zoom Past Earth, NASA Says : ScienceAlert
A truck-sized asteroid will pass near Earth on Thursday in one of the closest approaches to our planet ever recorded, NASA said, emphasizing that it poses no danger. Asteroid 2023 BU, which was recently...
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Scientists Have a Plan to Turn Earth Into a Giant Observatory : ScienceAlert
Fiber-optic cables stretch across oceans and wind their way underground to handle our communications systems, and scientists think that this vast network of infrastructure could be put to another use: observing Earth’s surface from...
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JWST Just Confirmed Its First Exoplanet, And It’s The Size of Earth : ScienceAlert
Since its launch in December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been breaking records. Now the instrument has spotted its first planet around a star other than our own, and with an...
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The Last 8 Years Have Been The Hottest Ever Recorded on Earth : ScienceAlert
The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Niña weather pattern since 2020, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said Tuesday. Average temperatures across 2022...
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A Comet Not Seen in 50,000 Years Is Streaking by Earth Soon. Here’s When to Look Up : ScienceAlert
A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said. The...
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Breathtaking Views of Earth, Moon Revealed by Danuri Lunar Orbiter : ScienceAlert
South Korea’s first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon’s surface and Earth, the national space center said Tuesday. Danuri – a portmanteau of the Korean words for “Moon” and “enjoy”...
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2022 on Track to Break Grim Record as Earth Becomes an “Atlas of Human Suffering” : ScienceAlert
Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts, and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality, and this is “just the beginning”, experts say, as international efforts to cut planet-heating emissions...
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Frequent Dry Spells Could Have Been Essential For Life to Emerge on Earth : ScienceAlert
How life emerged on Earth from an assortment of non-living molecules is a stubbornly enduring mystery. Experiments can show us how key steps might have happened, but for every leap forward there are confounding...
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Meteorites May’ve Needed This 1 Thing to Help Bring About Life on Earth : ScienceAlert
Earth is the only planet in the Universe known to host life, but even it was desolate at first. About 4 billion years ago, something happened to give our sterile rock the building blocks...
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