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The Middlesboro crater (or astrobleme) is a meteorite crater in Kentucky, United States. [2] It is named after the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, which today occupies much of the crater. The crater is approximately 3 miles (about 5 km) wide and its age is estimated to be less than 300 million years . The impactor is estimated to have been about ...
Comet Nishimura was discovered Aug. 11 by Hideo Nishimura, an amateur astronomer from Japan, according to NASA. This is the astronomer’s third comet discovery , Space.com reports.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered another Earth-sized, potentially habitable planet orbiting around a star in the range of distances where conditions could allow ...
The Perseverance rover has found evidence in a leopard-spotted rock that could suggest microbial life once existed on Mars billions of years ago, NASA said. NASA’s Perseverance rover may have ...
This list of exoplanets discovered in 2024 is a list of confirmed exoplanets that were first reported in 2024. For exoplanets detected only by radial velocity , the listed value for mass is a lower limit.
On 6 January 2020, NASA reported the discovery of TOI-700 d, the first Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone discovered by the TESS. The exoplanet orbits the star TOI-700 100 light-years away in the Dorado constellation . [ 80 ]
Solar System space probes operational as of November 2024. This is a list of active space probes which have escaped Earth orbit.It includes lunar space probes, but does not include space probes orbiting at the Sun–Earth Lagrangian points (for these, see List of objects at Lagrangian points).
NASA has documented the diverse debris scattered by the 2021 landing of its high-tech Perseverance rover, including a strange-looking ball of tangled, "spaghetti"-like material, which the space ...