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Scientists Are Getting Closer to Finding Evidence of the Fifth Force
One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...
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Royals watch RAF flypast from Palace balcony
Royals watch RAF flypast from Palace balcony ...
Rare earth minerals are the biggest card China can play in its negotiations with Trump
China's dominance in rare earths minerals can cause a shortage for US consumers in everything from cars to TV remotes.
Killer asteroids, a 'Hamilton' reunion and a far-out French Open: The week in review
Recapping some of the most talked-about news this week from the nation and around the world – in case you missed it.
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to totally transform astronomy
With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...
Proposed NASA radio probe could use gravity 'lumpiness' to reveal the insides of alien worlds
A new probe in development known as GIRO represents a low-cost step toward unlocking the secrets of exoplanets, all through ...
This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons
The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: ...
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NASA Plucked an Asteroid From Space. Now Researchers at the Field Will Probe It for Signs of the Origin of Life
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...
NASA's Webb telescope glimpses coldest exoplanet yet found: What to know about gas giant
An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...
Could an asteroid hit the moon? Odds rise after NASA's Webb examines YR4. The projections
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...
NASA Raises Odds of Asteroid Smacking the Moon in 2032
YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...
Dark energy camera captures sparse pockets of light among dark clouds of Chamaeleon I
The origin of our sun, and all the planets, comets and asteroids that orbit it, can be traced back to their birthplace inside a massive cloud of cold gas and dust, not unlike the billowing molecular ...