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  NASA's Orion capsule buzzes Moon, sends pics of 'pale blue planet' Earth

  Science | November 22, 2022 11:59 IST

  NASA Artemis Moon Mission: Video of the looming moon and our pale blue planet more than 230,000 miles (370,000 kilometers) in the distance left workers “giddy" at Houston's Johnson Space Center,

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  Jupiter makes its closest approach to Earth in 59 years; watch LIVE video here

  Trending | September 26, 2022 21:30 IST

  The next time Jupiter will come this close to Earth will be in 2129. Watch the unmissable celestial event LIVE here.

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  Watch out! NASA warns of huge asteroid headed for Earth tomorrow

  Science | September 12, 2022 19:20 IST

  Asteroid 22 RQ is already heading in the direction of Earth traveling at an astonishing speed of 49,536 and will miss the planet on September 13.

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  Solar storm to strike Earth today, expect disruption in mobile, GPS connectivity | Read to know more

  Science | July 19, 2022 18:00 IST

  Solar Storm to strike earth: Even though the strike may not disrupt the weather conditions on the planet, there are possibilities of blackouts in terms of mobile, and GPS services in some parts of the green planet.

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  Will Earth get hit with a major solar storm? Risk of blackout arises after eight sunspots emerge

  Trending | June 22, 2022 11:38 IST

  Things are again heating up on the sun due to which eight new sunspots have emerged on the Earth-facing side of the solar disk. The solar activity is slowly increasing day by day and will increase significantly this week. Due to this, there are possibilities that X-class solar flares and radiation storms can pose a harmful impact on the GPS system.

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  Geomagnetic solar storm to hit earth? GPS, radio, power supply may get hit

  Science | April 14, 2022 18:27 IST

  Geomagnetic storm means discharge of coronal mass ejection in significant amounts with high-intensity energy coming towards the earth.

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  Asteroid bigger than Burj Khalifa passes by Earth and Twitterati can't keep calm

  Trending | January 19, 2022 7:47 IST

  The giant asteroid crossed the Earth at a distance of roughly 1.98 million kilometres. It was being classified as ‘potentially hazardous’ and ‘Near-Earth Object’ because of its closeness to the planet Earth. There were many who feared the catastrophic destruction that could happen if the asteroid of this size collided with our planet. Luckily, nothing of this sort happened!

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  Sun fires significant solar flare, can disrupt Earth's GPS signals: NASA

  Science | October 29, 2021 15:44 IST

  The flare originated from a sunspot called AR2887 currently positioned in the center of the sun and facing the Earth, based on its location, Spaceweather.com reported.

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  Climate change causing drop in brightness of Earth: Study

  Science | October 01, 2021 15:46 IST

  Researchers found that Earth is now reflecting about half a watt less light per square metre than it was 20 years ago, with most of the drop occurring in the last three years of earthshine data.

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  SpaceX tourists' 3-day trip to orbit ends with splashdown in Atlantic off Florida coast

  Science | September 19, 2021 7:05 IST

  SpaceX’s fully automated Dragon capsule reached an unusually high altitude of 363 miles (585 kilometers) after Wednesday night’s liftoff.

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  SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip

  Science | September 16, 2021 16:26 IST

  It’s SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s first entry in the competition for space tourism dollars. Isaacman is the third billionaire to launch this summer, following the brief space-skimming flights by Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in July.

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  Earth, Saturn to come closest today. Here's when it will be visible in India

  Science | August 02, 2021 8:25 IST

  "As per Indian Standard Time (IST) at 11.30 am, Saturn and Earth will be closest to each other," an official has informed.

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  Massive, stadium-sized asteroid to fly past Earth soon. Details

  Science | July 21, 2021 12:12 IST

  In March this year, the largest asteroid passed through Earth at a speed 124,000 kph. 

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  Earth's energy imbalance doubled in 14 years: NASA

  World | June 19, 2021 10:47 IST

  To reach this conclusion, scientists compared data from two independent measurements -- NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) and data from a global array of ocean floats called Argo that enable an accurate estimate of the rate at which the world's oceans are heating up.

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  Sharks use Earth's magnetic field as a GPS, scientists say

  Science | May 16, 2021 20:22 IST

  Sharks use the Earth's magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across the world's oceans, scientists have found.

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  NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft way back to Earth with asteroid sample

  Science | May 11, 2021 20:00 IST

  After nearly five years in space, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the US space agency said.

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  Chinese Rocket spiraled out of control, to re-enter Earth's atmosphere

  Science | May 09, 2021 9:04 IST

  The spent stage of China's Long March 5B-Rocket that launched last month is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere

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  Disintegrated space rocket 'highly unlikely' to cause any damage on earth: China

  Science | May 07, 2021 16:50 IST

  Replying to questions about the Long March 5B rocket, which last week launched the core module of the country's space station and started hurtling down to Earth, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing on Friday that China will provide timely updates on it.

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  Will asteroid Apophis hit Earth in 2068? Here's what NASA says

  Science | March 28, 2021 20:20 IST

  In a big relief, NASA has ruled out the possibility of asteroid Apophis impacting Earth in 2068, saying that our planet is safe from this notorious space rock for at least a century.

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  Biggest asteroid to pass by Earth this year comes closest

  Science | March 21, 2021 21:49 IST

  The largest asteroid to visit Earth in 2021 is passing by our planet on Sunday at a speed of about 124,000 kph. Although this speed is faster than the speed at which most asteroids encounter Earth, there is no threat of a collision with our planet, NASA said earlier this month.