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Solar storm warning: Stream of particles from Sun to lash Earth – impact time predicted

A stream of solar wind is possibly headed our way, carrying with it charged particles from the upper reaches of the Sun’s atmosphere....

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Solar winds incoming! Space weather forecast predicts ‘unrest’ as hole opens in the Sun

Space weather forecasters expect the stream of charged particles and plasma to reach Earth by Wednesday, July 28. The solar winds are escaping from...

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Mission Mars: UK scientists join NASA in daring venture to land humans on the Red Planet

Getting humans to Mars is one thing, but figuring out what to do once you get there is a completely different challenge. Under...

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NASA and SpaceX scrub Crew Dragon undocking: Poor weather scuppers ISS return this weekend

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience was originally pencilled in to leave the orbital lab earlier this week but the mission keeps getting hit with delays....

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Water on Mars: Entire oceans could be ‘locked up’ in the Red Planet’s crust, NASA says

Mars is dead – plain and simple – but billions of years ago the bone-dry planet resembled a young Earth, with a lush...

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Asteroid news: NASA confirms London Eye-sized space rock will fly past Earth

Asteroid 2021 BS3 is estimated to be as large as 360ft (110m) across – making the space rock approximately the same size as London’s...

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Asteroid bigger than a kilometre and ‘potentially hazardous’ set to pass Earth, says NASA

An infamous space rock called 231937 (2001 FO32) will swing near to our planet on March 21. The monster space rock is a...

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NASA news: Astronomers ‘nail down’ planet in incredibly rare triple star system

NASA astronomers have named the distant exoplanet KOi-5Ab after its initial discovery in 2009. KOi-5Ab was only the second planet candidate found by NASA’s...