A natural impact carved a 728-foot crater on the Moon. NASA found the fresh scar by comparing old orbital images—and discovered the blast changed the surrounding ground, too.
A preprint reports radio bursts localized to the giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris b. The authors interpret them as likely auroral emissions tied to a magnetic field—not an alien signal.
Remember the Armageddon movie? Yes, the movie where a group of astronauts led by Bruce Willis save humanity by preventing a huge asteroid from crashing into Earth, well, now NASA will do the same to prevent a huge asteroid from impacting our planet in 2022. NASA has been working for a while on this type of mission, all… Read more »
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Observatories including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, which likely comes from comet-like jets of gas. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/our-solar-system-s-first-known-interstellar-object-gets-unexpected-speed-boost Find more Hubble visuals here: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-25 Find the science paper…
