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This Week A Piece Of The Most Dangerous Asteroid Will Land In America

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is set to make a historic return to Earth on Sunday, bringing back a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu. This will mark the first time a US mission has successfully retrieved a piece of an asteroid and brought it back home. Bennu, a half-kilometer wide spinning top-shaped space rock, is classified … Read more

There Might Be An “Earth-Sized Planet” Hiding In The Solar System

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The universe is a vast, mysterious place filled with celestial wonders. One of the most intriguing possibilities astronomers are considering is that ours might not be the only Earth-like planet in the solar system. Their belief is drawn from their observations of the Kuiper Belt, a region at the edge of the solar system filled … Read more