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After more than a decade of observing and monitoring the universe, NASA has released a short film showing the evolution of outer space, this is truly a very interesting…
Since 2013, the US Space Agency (NASA) has discovered hundreds of asteroids at risk of colliding with the Earth.
In addition to the European Space Agency's Philae probe, the recent landing on comet 67P has six other outstanding missions underway.
The NEOWISE probe (new name according to WISE's mission to detect dangerous objects near Earth) has sent to the first test images.
Newly awakened, the NEOWISE cruise ship immediately spotted an asteroid that has long been hovering near the Earth but has never been detected.
The asteroid hunting spacecraft has been awakened after 2 years of hibernation in space, and has just returned to the first images of potential targets.
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is an infrared probe spacecraft launched by NASA on December 14, 2009.
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said data transmitted from the WISE spacecraft provided a new genealogy of belt asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
Experts at NASA claimed they had counted nearly all of the celestial bodies that could endanger our planet.