Katrina Miller
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How to Watch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Retrieve Asteroid Samples From Space
A seven-year mission might end on Sunday as scientists try to drop off a sample of rock from Bennu, an asteroid that might hold clues...
Arsenic Preserved the Animals, But Killed the Museum
A popular taxidermy exhibit in Sioux Falls, S.D., was closed after the toxin was discovered laced throughout the specimens. Many lament the loss of the...
A Fireball Whacked Into Jupiter, and Astronomers Got It on Video
In August, stargazers in Japan recorded a bright flash on the giant gas planet. Scientists want to use data like this to study our solar...
Comet Nishimura: How and When to See It This Weekend
For the next few mornings, just before sunrise, the cosmic snowball will glow green low on the horizon.
Blue Supermoon: When and How to See the Lunar Event
The next full moon, the second this month, is a celestial rarity. It will also be bigger and brighter than usual.
Ancient Fires Drove Sabertooth Cats and Other Large Mammals Extinct, Study Suggests
Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California suggest that sabertooth cats and other large North American mammals disappeared as a result of wildfires...
Muon Discovery Moves Physicists One Step Closer to a Theoretical Showdown
The deviance of a tiny particle called the muon might prove that one of the most well-tested theories in physics is incomplete.
Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue
Astronomers have found that free-floating planets far outnumber those bound to a host star.
NASA Restores Voyager 2 Contact With a Last-Ditch ‘Shout’ Into Space
After an erroneous command sent the spacecraft’s antenna askew, mission specialists hatched a plan to point it back toward Earth.
NASA’s Voyager 2 Is Out of Contact but Not Lost in Space
The aging spacecraft’s antenna was misdirected by a glitch, although officials say the distant probe appears to be functioning as intended.
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