Apophis is the size of the Eiffel Tower and a 2068 impact scenario is still in play, but it's not a reason to lose sleep.
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Cornell University researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor that combines low-cost LEDs and dyes, resulting in a stretchable ''skin'' that detects deformations...
Rubber-based system should be impervious to electromagnetic forces and moisture
Cornell researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor that combines low-cost LEDs and dyes, resulting in a stretchable “skin” that detects deformations such as...
Dust storms have been slowly carrying it away, a new study says
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Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than the sun will produce over its...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has a new selfie. This latest is from a location named "Mary Anning," after a 19th-century English paleontologist whose discovery of...
This year has been an extremely active year for news of asteroids and comets with NASA's OSIRIS-REX touching down on asteroid Bennu last month, and a veritable flurry...