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It will arrive too late for Halloween this year, but an eerie, skull-shaped asteroid that some are calling the "death comet" is coming back for another visit. On Nov. 11, asteroid 2015 TB145 will ...
Images of the skull-shaped asteroid travelling through space were captured using the Goldstone telescope in Puerto Rico. Picture: NAIC-ARECIBO/NSF Space experts say the comet’s path is very easy ...
The point is, a cluster of stars out there called NGC 2467 looks like an awesome skeletal nightmare mask in the sky — hence its nickname, the "Skull and ... Ball Nebula - Space Photo of the ...
But data from Perseverance's SuperCam instrument ruled that out as its composition doesn't match that of any known space rocks. Instead, researchers are now exploring the possibility that Skull ...
The US space agency dubbed the asteroid the “Great Pumpkin” due to its uncanny resemblance to a human skull. At the time, the asteroid passed within 1.3 lunar distance of the Earth ...
"The Komodo has a featherweight, space-frame skull and bites like a wimp," according to Wroe, "but a combination of very clever engineering, and wickedly sharp teeth, allow it to do serious damage ...
NASA scientists ruled that out — it didn’t have the high iron and nickel levels typical of space rocks. Another possible theory is that Skull Hill is an igneous rock formed when lava or magma ...