Observe how paintball clouds enhance the albedo of asteroid leading to its deflection

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Artemis II astronauts named a new crater after their commander's late wife.

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Ecological effects of light pollution.

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John Dalton and the development of the atomic theory.

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Learn how scientists find and track near-Earth asteroids, which are asteroids that might pass close to Earth's orbit.

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This rock would take out more than just a T. rex.

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Questions and answers about Carl Friedrich Gauss.

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Captured on October 20, 2020, during the OSIRIS-REx mission's Touch-and-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of 82 images shows the SamCam imager's field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu's surface. The sampling event brought the spacecraft all the way down to sample site Nightingale, and the team on Earth received confirmation of successful touchdown at 6:08 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Preliminary data show the sampling head touched Bennu's surface for approximately five seconds, after which the spacecraft performed a back-away burn.