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25 Jul 2022

China's spacecraft docks with space station, astronauts enter lab module

Three Chinese astronauts aboard the country's space station successfully entered the lab module China launched its space laboratory called Wentian on Sunday China sent the country's largest-ever spacecraft into Earth's orbit to become part of the space station named Tiangong which is currently under construction

13 Jul 2017

Scientists in China teleport first object 300 miles into space!

Last month, the Chinese team demonstrated they could send entangled photons from space to Earth. The latest work does the reverse: they sent photons from the mountaintop base to the satellite as it passed directly overhead.

09 Jul 2017

NASA plans to save Earth by knocking asteroid off its orbit

The target for the first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defence -- the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- is an asteroid that will have a distant approach to Earth in October 2022, and then again in 2024, NASA said.

09 Oct 2015

'World-killer' giant asteroid 86666 to narrowly miss Earth this weekend!

Asteroid 86666 (2000 FL10), which could be up to 2.6km wide, has the potential to end life on the planet but fortunately will narrowly miss Earth.

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