As the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter has a massive gravity pull, sucking hazardous debris into its orbit and atmosphere. If our solar system were a nightclub, Jupiter would be the 6' 5" bouncer turning uninvited guests away at the door.
The universe we know started 13.8 billion years ago with a big, sudden bang. Just like an expanding balloon, the universe inflated from a size smaller than an electron to nearly its current size within a tiny fraction of a second.
TIME for Kids | Operation Asteroid
Mission managers at NASA sent a refrigerator-size craft 7 million miles into space. Its job was to punch an asteroid in the nose. We should be glad NASA did this. Earth feels a little bit safer now.
TEST RUN This illustration shows NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft (DART) before it hit Dimorphos (left).
NASA Resuscitates Psyche Asteroid Mission
A NASA mission to explore one of the most intriguing objects in the asteroid belt is getting a second chance. The Psyche mission is now targeting a launch period in 2023 after missing its initial window this year due to development delays.
Instead, NASA put together an independent review board to go over the issues that led to the delay and assess whet her or not the spacecraft should still launch.
Army of the Alien Monkeys
Earth is nice. We want it.
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