The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
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Around the same time our ancestors left Africa, a dim red dwarf star came to within 0.8 light-years of our Sun, marking the closest known flyby of a star to our Solar System. New research suggests Scholz’s Star, as it’s known, left traces of this interstellar encounter by perturbing some…
Have you ever wondered what would happen to you, where you are, if an asteroid hit the Earth? Here’s some light lunchtime viewing for you.
Tomorrow morning, an asteroid-bound mission will launch towards a shadowy space rock, Bennu. There, it will scoop up a bit of dirt and deliver it back to us, all without ever attempting a landing. It’s not just any dirt, though. Bound up in these grains could be the answer to…
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