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NASA says there is ‘no threat’ from the ‘tiny asteroid’ that will pass by Earth on election eve
Astronomers announced over the weekend that an asteroid was projected to pass by Earth with a slim chance of actually hitting it — right before election day. NASA took to their official social media account to tamper down widely shared end-of-the-world reactions.
Just in time for the election: an asteroid?
According to NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, there is a small asteroid headed our way on Nov. 2.
NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life
The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.
Spacecraft snaps closest pictures of sun, ‘campfires’ abound
A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun, revealing countless little “campfires” flaring everywhere.
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