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NASA discovers potentially hazardous asteroid has a moon during close encounter

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On June 27, asteroid 2011 UL21 passed relatively close to Earth, flying past our planet at a distance of 6.6 million kilometers (4.1 million miles), which is about 17 times the average distance from Earth to the Moon. While it wasn’t close enough to worry about, the encounter gave astronomers a chance to get a … Read more

My first encounter with The Plucky Squire was one of the most joyful experiences in a long time

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Joy is a bit underrated, I think, but at Summer Game Fest this year, it felt like it was the closest thing to an ongoing theme. Astro Bot and Lego Horizon Adventures were both light-hearted, playful, exuberant family games where all the focus was on simply having fun. However, The Plucky Squire, an action game … Read more

Anger at the woman’s reaction to an encounter with an unruly child on the run

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By Dominic Yeatman for Dailymail.Com 00:53 June 19, 2024, updated 08:43 June 19, 2024 An operating room nurse turned influencer has sparked a fierce debate over whether she and her husband did the right thing by threatening to discipline a stranger’s child who spat at them during a flight. Shayla Monnier and husband Andrew boarded … Read more

Encounter between the sun and ‘something outside the solar system’ may have cooled the Earth dramatically

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As the moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the sun, and the sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, moving up and down with respect to the galactic plane. A new study has suggested that this movement of our star through the Milky Way may be taking us through regions of space that … Read more

Two million years ago, an encounter between the sun and something outside the solar system changed all life on Earth

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New research from Boston University and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute suggests that the sun passed through a massive hydrogen cloud two million years ago, directly impacting the protective heliosphere and possibly permanently altering all life on Earth. Evidence for this event and its effects on Earth’s climate also shows that the Sun’s location in the … Read more

How NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its first encounter with the sun

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an animation of a cube-shaped spacecraft with two rectangular wing-like solar panels passing in front of the sun

OSIRIS-APEX emerged “unscathed” from its closest-ever pass to our sun on January 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-RExhas completed its monster return mission to the asteroid Bennu and is now headed to the space rock Apophis on an extended mission. That new mission requires OSIRIS-APEX to hover 40 … Read more