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As estimates of meteor strikes rise, how can Earth avoid destruction?

As the risk of meteor strikes rises, how can Earth avoid destruction?…

Martian craters could be ancient supervolcanoes that radically transformed the Red Planet

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Today in history: Voyager snaps first ever photo of Earth with the moon

NASA On this day in 1977, Voyager 1, a NASA-launched spacecraft, took the first photo of the Earth and moon together in a single frame. Thirty-six years later, Voyager 1 became the first manmade object to…

“Space frog” photobombs NASA lift-off

Photo by NASA A still camera on a sound trigger captured an intriguing photo of an airborne frog when NASA's LADEE spacecraft launched from Pad 0B at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

NASA discovers 10 supermassive black holes … by accident

Photo coutesy of NASA/JPL/CalTech. NASA's NuSTAR X-Ray telescope found 10 supermassive black holes last week, almost by accident. "We found the black holes serendipitously. We were looking at known targets and spotted the black holes in the background…

Amateur astronomers observe skies for threats that could smash into Earth