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Connecticut teacher’s remains launched into deep space with DNA of George Washington and JFK
At 2 a.m. on Jan. 8, Dawn Amore watched from a bridge in Cape Canaveral as a rocket carrying the remains of her mother, ...
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Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of the world’s telescopes last year
Instead of stargazing with a traditional telescope, researchers devised a novel algorithm called Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR, which peruses old photos of space like a form ...
Copernicus may have leaned on ancient Muslim astronomer in developing his cosmological system
New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...
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Earth will get a second moon for nearly 57 days this year
An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...
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Study suggests Copernicus to have leaned on an ancient Muslim astronomer in developing his cosmological system
Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...