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Six Asteroids — One Considered Potentially Hazardous — Flew Past Earth In Less Than 24 Hours

These six asteroids flew near Earth on Thursday, including one that NASA considered potentially hazardous.

Inverse

NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom and is still tumbling in Earth orbit (photo)

The technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has a bent boom in Earth orbit, but NASA says it shouldn't be a big deal.

Space

A meteorite 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life on Earth flourish

The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that struck Earth over 3 billion years ago may have benefitted early life.

Space

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Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations blend Indigenous customs and European thinking in surprising ways

Every year, five hours west of Mexico City on Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, residents flock to the island of Janitzio to visit the graves of their departed relatives.

The Conversation

Campaigners ‘disappointed’ to lose legal fight over climate change plan

Kevin Jordan. Doug Paulley and environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth claimed the National Adaptation Programme was ‘deficient’.

The Independent UK

'Quantum CD' could hold up to 1,000 times more data than today's optical discs

The new study models how light spreads at the nanometer scale to understand how energy moves between rare earth emitters and the quantum defects within a solid material.

LiveScience

Moo Deng: the celebrated hippo’s real home has disappeared – will the world restore it?

The playful and pudgy mammal that went viral from its Thai zoo enclosure has a sad story to tell about her fellows hippos.

The Conversation

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Crew-8 astronauts splash down on SpaceX Dragon Endeavour after weather delays (video)

Crew-8 is back on Earth after an extended mission and a wait for the weather to clear. Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin splashed down on Dragon Endeavour.

Space

4 astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a space station mission that lasted almost eight months

The Independent UK

3 best Amazon Prime Video shows to watch after The Boys

If you've been loving The Boys on Prime Video, here's a trio of other "Supes" shows to watch next.

Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace plans to start launching space tourists in 2027

Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace plans to start launching customers to suborbital space and back in 2027, for a price of about $210,000 per seat.

Space

Watch sun erupt in 1st images from NOAA's groundbreaking new satellite (photos)

NOAA shared new images taken by the world's first operational space-based coronagraph, CCOR-1, captured during a solar storm outburst.

Space

Astronomers just found complex carbon molecules in space – a step closer to deciphering the origins of life

A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust.

The Conversation

Watch SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts return to Earth early Oct. 25

The astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission will return to Earth early Friday morning (Oct. 25), and you can watch their homecoming live.

Space

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Fighting space junk: More than 100 partners sign Europe's 'Zero Debris Charter'

More than 100 partners have signed Europe's Zero Debris Charter, a push to help get Earth's space junk problem under control.

Digital Camera World

Watch live coverage of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 return to Earth with a splash

Tune in to watch the four astronauts touch down off the coast of Florida after a seven month research mission aboard the International Space Station

LiveScience

Supernova that lit up Earth's skies 843 years ago has a flowering 'zombie star' at its heart — and it's still exploding

A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova witnessed by astronomers in 1181. The remains of the stellar explosion are unusually wonky and are still exploding at a constant speed.

The Conversation

How Elon Musk has become a powerful figure in US politics

Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX recently made history by catching a Starship rocket booster as it careened back to Earth, wants you to vote for Donald Trump for many reasons. That includes not just what Trump will do here on this planet, but also for what he’ll achieve that’s outside…

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Breakthrough coming? Iceland could get solar power from space in 2030

A British startup plans to supply solar power from space to Icelanders by 2030, in what could be the world's first demonstration of the novel renewable energy source.

Space

Watch sun unleash major X-flare in epic solar eruption (video)

We could expect even more eruptions from this sunspot region in the coming days as it rotates to face Earth.

The Independent UK

World is on track for a ‘catastrophic’ rise in temperature, UN report says

The United Nation’s warning comes as scientists say 2024 will most certainly be Earth’s hottest year on record once again

Total Film

Samuel L. Jackson thinks Star Wars' Mace Windu could be "out there walking the Earth" with his Pulp Fiction character

"Just 'cause they cut my arm off and I fell out of a window, doesn’t mean I’m dead"

The Independent UK

Tesco, KFC and other top brands could be selling chicken linked to illegal deforestation, report says

Exclusive: Major UK supplier linked to soya giant repeatedly accused of razing habitats vital for fighting the climate emergency

Space

Saturn gets its 1st confirmed Trojan asteroid — but it might be stolen

Saturn has finally joined the solar system's other giant planets in possessing a Trojan asteroid, but it may have stolen it. The bouncing asteroid seems to have originated in the Kuiper belt.

The Independent UK

Four large ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroids headed towards Earth – but it should be fine

Largest of the asteroids is about 580ft wide, Nasa says

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