Infrared detection boost: The NEO Surveyor will use heat signatures to spot asteroids and comets from the Sun-Earth L1 point, avoiding the limitations of ground-based telescopes. Bennu’s far-off ...

The asteroid, named Apophis, will pass around 20,000 miles from Earth's surface on April 13, 2029—closer than many satellites ...

The Trump administration wants to cancel funding for several NASA science missions with ties to the University of Arizona, ...

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Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a ...

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A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors ...

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...

New research reveals that Dante Alighieri's Inferno wasn't just a masterpiece of literature: it was a gedankenexperiment in impact physics. From multi-ring craters to shockwaves that reshaped the ...

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