Atlas making closest approach to Earth this week
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The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim flew home with two Roscosmos cosmonauts from the International Space Station packed tight in their Soyuz spacecraft landing in the frozen steppes of Kazakhstan on Dec. 9 to complete an eight-month stay in space.
NASA seeks capabilities that enable the delivery of systems allowing crews to detect and interpret anomalous spacecraft behavior in real-time.
With NASA’s first launch toward the moon in five decades potentially only a few months away, the space agency has just released the first episode of a new show that focuses on the highly anticipated mission.
The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.
Earth's surface has darkened noticeably since 2001, as captured by NASA satellites for the first time in real-time, reflecting less sunlight and trapping more solar energy in the climate system. This shift,