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# Earth

Last month
August 2023
# voyager 2
Nasa makes contact with spacecraft 19 billion kilometres away after wrong command tilted it from Earth
Project manager Suzanne Dodd said that the news had “buoyed our spirits”.
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Aug 1st 2023, 5:11 PM
This year
2023
# Space
Rainy weather on Earth interrupts livestream broadcast from Mars
The images that made it through showed about one-third of Mars as the spacecraft circled the planet.
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Jun 2nd 2023, 9:00 PM
# European Space Agency
Large asteroid to safely zoom between Earth and Moon this evening in once-in-a-decade event
Small asteroids fly past every day, but one of this size coming so close to Earth only happens around once every 10 years.
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Mar 25th 2023, 2:12 PM
All time
# Navigating
Cork Airport has renamed its main runway - to keep up with Earth's magnetic poles
Small shifts in the Earth’s magnetic poles made the change essential.
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Apr 26th 2018, 2:17 PM
# close one
Largest asteroid in over a century flies by Earth
Scientists had planned to study the asteroid up close when it passes.
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Sep 1st 2017, 9:32 PM
# dark side of the moon
Large asteroid to hurtle past Earth tomorrow
Nasa has said there is no chance the asteroid will hit us, but it will be “a very close approach”.
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Apr 18th 2017, 3:36 PM
# Discovery
Fossils point to life on Earth four billion years ago
Earth is thought to be about 4.57 billion years old.
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Mar 2nd 2017, 3:02 PM
# irreparable damage
Not even the deepest, darkest parts of the planet have escaped human pollution
A new study has found traces of pollution in the deepest oceans on the planets.
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Feb 13th 2017, 10:31 PM
# long day eh?
Days on Earth are getting longer (very, very slowly)
A new study says that Earth’s days are getting longer by around 1.8 milliseconds per century.
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Dec 7th 2016, 8:05 AM
# Goldilocks zone
Scientists have found a new planet that bears an uncanny resemblance to Earth
Named Proxima b, the planet is in a temperate zone compatible with the presence of liquid water – a key ingredient for life.
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Aug 24th 2016, 7:48 PM
# Australia
Scientists find evidence of giant asteroid that would have triggered huge earthquakes and tsunamis
The asteroid hit Earth about 3.5 billion years ago.
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May 18th 2016, 8:47 AM
# Take a Break
Take a break and watch this stunning timelapse of Earth's horizon
It’s hump day – give yourself a little breather…
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Apr 6th 2016, 10:57 AM
# we're not in
Scientists have come up with a cunning plan to hide the planet from aliens
Shhhhhh!
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Apr 3rd 2016, 4:00 PM
# TX68
An asteroid is going to swoop uncomfortably close to Earth
Before you panic: no, it’s not going to hit us — though it’s going to come tantalisingly close.
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Feb 13th 2016, 10:30 AM
Quiz: Can you tell if these photos are from Mars or Earth?
Trickier than you might imagine.
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Oct 26th 2015, 9:30 PM
# Lights out
What would happen if the sun disappeared right now?
It wouldn’t be the best thing that could happen.
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Aug 23rd 2015, 2:00 PM
Voices
We’re playing God with the lives of the poorest people on Earth
When it comes to climate change, we can’t blame ‘Acts of God’ for destroying our planet. We can only blame ourselves.
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Jul 21st 2015, 1:30 PM
# Wow
This is the first full photo of earth taken in 43 years
And it’s pretty impressive.
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Jul 21st 2015, 8:11 AM
# is it a bird? Is it a plane?
Look up - a bunch of astronauts are about to float over Ireland
The International Space Station will be visable in our skies for the next five nights.
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Apr 9th 2015, 8:30 PM
# ISS
There will be six astronauts flying over our heads tonight, so look up
The International Space Station can be seen in Irish skies tonight and tomorrow.
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Feb 18th 2015, 6:09 PM
# flyby
An asteroid the size of a mountain is passing us by right now
Don’t worry, it won’t crash into us.
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Jan 26th 2015, 4:30 PM
# keplar 438b
This is what the most Earth-like planet ever discovered looks like
It’s chance of being habitable? “Promising.”
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Jan 6th 2015, 6:57 PM
# final frontier
These women were meant to be the first astronauts - but were left on Earth
Many of the women finalists scored higher in training than their male counterparts.
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Nov 29th 2014, 3:58 PM
# Polar Bears
This guy gets to film polar bears for a living (and one tried to attack him)
Meet Gordon Buchanan.
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Nov 8th 2014, 10:30 AM
# powdering through
A huge comet that's as solid as a pile of talcum powder just buzzed by Mars
The comet, known as Siding Spring, whizzed past Mars yesterday. Three NASA spacecraft had to take shelter behind the Red Planet as the close encounter took place.
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Oct 20th 2014, 3:00 PM
# Voyager
Asteroid hunting probe to travel four years to potato-shaped space rock
Hayabusa-2 will be flung into space on a rocket for a mammoth four year voyage.
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Sep 2nd 2014, 9:30 AM
# we built this city
Patents and skyscrapers...what makes these 18 cities the most innovative places on Earth
These cities are commended for thinking outside the box of industry, design and urban planning.
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Aug 17th 2014, 4:00 PM
# Off-Road
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity breaks off-world driving record
The ten-year old rover managed to travel 40.24km since it landed on Mars in 2004, beating the record originally set back in 1973.
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Jul 29th 2014, 2:11 PM
# Close Call
Turns out Earth survived near-miss from a solar storm back in 2012
Modern civilization could have been “knocked back to the 18th century.”
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Jul 24th 2014, 10:45 PM
# Diamonds in the Sky
Ancient Earth-sized 'diamond' discovered in space
Coldest, dimmest white dwarf ever detected has been located in space about 900 light-years from Earth.
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Jun 24th 2014, 11:42 AM
# high noon
So we all know today is the longest day of the year. But exactly how long?
Technically the darkest it gets is very dark twilight.
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Jun 21st 2014, 10:00 AM
Voices
Opinion: We have found Earth's Cousin outside our solar system ... but what does that mean?
The Kepler spacecraft been on a planet-hunting mission since 2009 – and it’s just found the first Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone. What are the implications?
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May 6th 2014, 7:30 PM
# Vertigo
Watch: This is what it looks like to be blasted into space on the side of a rocket
For a securely fastened camera that is.
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Apr 8th 2014, 4:22 PM
# Liftoff
ESA set to launch new earth monitoring satellite into orbit later today
The Sentinel-1A satellite is a polar-orbiting, all-weather, day and night radar imaging satellite which will be used for land and ocean services.
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Apr 3rd 2014, 10:59 AM
Voices
Column: Why is Pluto not a planet?
Most of us grew up learning that there were nine planets in the Solar System. But why did Pluto get demoted? Conor Farrell explains how our understanding of the icy body changed.
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Jan 17th 2014, 12:55 PM
# world out there
Awe-inspiring video of Earth from space will put your day in perspective
Simply breathtaking.
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Dec 4th 2013, 8:02 AM
Urban beauties: Incredible view of cities from space
The European Space Agency’s Envistat and other satellites have captured manmade features from above.
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Nov 30th 2013, 10:00 AM
# the magnetic fields
European space mission to explore strange changes in Earth’s magnetism
The European Space Agency is preparing to launch three hi-tech satellites this Friday.
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Nov 19th 2013, 7:45 AM
# true or false
Debunked: Does Earth's distance from the Sun cause our seasons?
The thinking that the further away we are the colder it gets isn’t right. In fact, it’s the complete opposite.
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Sep 15th 2013, 10:30 AM
# to boldly go
Final Frontier: NASA's Voyager departs the solar system for deep space
The Voyager 1 probe was launched in 1977 on a mission to explore the outer planets. It will continue to drift across the galaxy, carrying discs of greetings from planet Earth…
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Sep 12th 2013, 8:34 PM
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