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Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: 'The timing was extremely lucky'

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
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Stunning Mars image highlights one of Red Planet's oldest cratered regions

Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.

In a first, NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun—by accident

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.

Spacecraft’s impact changed asteroid’s orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

17 movies with exclamation-point titles, ranked!

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! joins an ongoing canon of enthusiastically named films.
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1958 Plymouth Belvedere convertible

A true icon of the late ’50s, the Belvedere Convertible blends style and performance. What makes this model such a standout in Plymouth’s history?

A big asteroid won't hit the moon. Many scientists had wished it would.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed Asteroid 2024 YR4 again, refining its trajectory and ruling out a potential collision with the moon in 2032. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / ...