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The asteroid is predicted to come Thursday within around 3.2 million miles of Earth in its own orbit around the sun.

A massive ozone hole which is at least seven times larger than the Antarctic ozone hole has been found over the tropical region.

NASA wants Elon Musk's SpaceX to ensure its plan to launch its next-generation Starship rocket from Florida would not put at risk nearby launch infrastructure critical to the International Space Station, a senior space agency official told Reuters.

Rocket firm Astra Space's mission to send tiny storm-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space.

It has been more than a month since astrophysicists have been predicting that a rocket is on a collision course with the moon. Earlier, it was thought be SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster, but recent reports have claimed that it may not be some other rocket.

Shatner's idea of polluting the rest of the space as well with our industries has not gone down well with Twitter users.

NASA described the first audio recording as akin to "listening to a seashell or having a hand cupped over the ear."

Those who support a manned mission to Mars say that the risks will not outweigh the perceived benefits it will offer mankind.

It slammed into the jovian atmosphere at a height of around 140 miles, high above the clouds of Jupiter.

The space agency received a huge amount of data as the rover sent back thousands of images of a different world.

The space agency will provide the public with live coverage of the historic landing and a "first photo" will be shared after landing.

The entry, descent, and landing may only take seven minutes but it is by far, considered as the most dangerous part of the whole mission.

Participants in the competition must produce food that can help fill food gaps for a three-year round-trip mission with no resupply.

The single-trip using SpaceX's Heavy Falcon cost NASA $332 million and will launch the PPE and the HALO elements of Lunar Gateway.

"The animals were suffering the ethological deprivations and frustrations inherent in laboratory life," animal ethics expert John Gluck said.

Astronomers revealed they was not able to detect the asteroid until 15 hours after its closest approach

The crew comprises three Americans -- Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker -- and Japan's Soichi Noguchi.

There is no news if Elon Musk had been planning to attend the SpaceX NASA launch in Florida on Sunday.

Sunday's launch begins the first of what the US hopes will become routine missions for SpaceX following a successful test flight in late spring.

NASA's Perseverance mission was launched in July to carry out the Mars exploration mission around Jezero crater on the planet.

NASA's Orion spacecraft is targeted to launch in 2024 on Moon's surface as part of Artemis program with two astronauts.