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COMET ISON: The Most Exciting Thing To Happen On Thanksgiving
In the first and most exciting scenario, ISON could survive the passage of the sun and continue on …
Dina Spector
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This alcohol-laced comet spewed 500 wine bottles' worth of booze per second
So tracing the ingredients for the origin of life all the way back to comets and asteroids that for…
Kelly Dickerson
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A 'Nation-Busting' Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2036
Comets are different from asteroids for a number of reasons. The biggest difference is that asteroi…
Dina Spector
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Scientists have measured a comet's impenetrable shield in action for the 1st time
They also found that Comet 67P has more potassium but less calcium than other comets of its kind. T…
Jessica Orwig
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Tonight, a meteor shower created by a mysterious comet will reach its peak - here's how to watch
To figure out whether you're seeing a Delta Aquarid meteor or a Perseid meteor, you can trace the m…
Ali Sundermier
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There's a meteor shower from Halley's Comet coming this week - here's how to see it
The best time to see the meteor shower will start late at night on Wednesday, October 21, and last …
Kelly Dickerson
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Next week, a meteor shower created by a mysterious comet will reach its peak - here's how to watch
To figure out whether you're seeing a Delta Aquarid meteor or a Perseid meteor, you can trace the m…
Ali Sundermier
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There's A Beautiful Comet In The Sky That You Can See With Your Naked Eyes
The dates on the tick marks are for midnight in Universal Time, which correlates to 7 pm EST for th…
Jessica Orwig
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Astronomers Spot A Never-Before-Seen Comet-Like Thing In The Sky
Comets, on the hand, are typically made of ice, dust, and rock. When comets gets close to the sun, …
Dina Spector
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How to watch tomorrow's meteor shower created by a rogue comet that could be from another solar system
To glimpse the meteors all you have to do is lie on your back and keep your eyes peeled in the dire…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA Releases The First-Ever Images Of Our Solar System's Tail
IBEX uses a technique called energetic neutral atom imaging. The instrument collects neutral atoms …
Dina Spector
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What you're really seeing during a meteor shower
Now some meteor showers are more spectacular than others, giving us anywhere from a few to over a h…
Nathaniel Lee,Jessica Orwig
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How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction
The Perseids can be the best meteor shower of the year, thanks to bright fireballs and long colorfu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.
Avi Loeb thinks the public has a right to know the truth about UFOs. He hopes his controversial ide…
Marianne Guenot
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A couple got red rashes on their stomachs after being bitten by beetle parasites living in their furniture
A couple had to get rid of their furniture after they were were bitten by parasites living on the b…
Serafina Kenny
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An invisible force surrounding Earth may be creating water on the moon
High-energy electrons in the plasma surrounding Earth may have helped generate water on the lunar s…
Marianne Guenot
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The 2023 Perseid meteor shower will peak this weekend, bringing up to 100 fireballs per hour. Here's where to watch.
The Perseid meteor shower will peak August 13, 2023, and conditions to see will be good this year. …
Marianne Guenot
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The Hubble telescope caught an asteroid ripping itself to pieces due to the 'YORP effect'
The effect is something like a parent swinging a kid around by her arms; once the parent rotates fa…
Dave Mosher
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The Geminid meteor shower, one of the year's most spectacular, peaks this week - here's how to watch
Phaethon's origin is still debated. According to NASA, the object could be either an extinct comet …
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki
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The Leonids meteor shower will send bright green shooting stars across the sky this weekend, early next week. Here's how to see them.
Find a dark spot with a clear view of the sky, ideally far from city lights. Meteor showers are bes…