Situation is significant enough to warrant global planetary defence community's attention. Astronomers plan to use James Webb ...

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Everyone likes cutting government waste in theory and NASA offers plenty of targets. Yet, as both Mr Isaacman and Mr Musk are likely to discover, it is cutting waste in practice that is hard.

NASA and the Europeans Space Agency are among ... us here on Earth to better detect – and prepare for – inbound asteroids, remnants from the early formation of our solar system some 4.6 ...

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Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission ... "On average, medium-sized asteroids collide with Earth about every 100–200 thousand years. This means that our early ...

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