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NASA crashes DART spacecraft into an asteroid, testing a tactic to bump space rocks away from Earth
NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to knock it off its path. It's the first te…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Marianne Guenot
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The asteroid NASA is about to strike poses no threat to Earth, but 60% of city-killer rocks fly under the radar
NASA's DART mission is about to practice deflecting an asteroid away from Earth. But NASA can't pro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists claim they've found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago
Dinosaur fossils found at Tanis in North Dakota are believed to date back to the mass extinction ev…
Marianne Guenot,Alia Shoaib
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Asteroids the size of planes will fly past Earth today, within hours of each other
The fourth space object, Asteroid (2019 XY) was first spotted by astronomers on 3 December 201…
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Two tiny asteroids to zoom past Earth this Diwali — likely without any fireworks
While both of them are on the watch list of asteroids to track, it’s unlikely that they will b…
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NASA is finally advancing a space telescope that could track down dangerous asteroids before they strike Earth
Potentially hazardous asteroids often skim past Earth without warning. A space telescope that looks…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Asteroid flying faster than a bullet will shoot past Earth today
Asteroid 2019 SR8 will be flying past Earth today at a speed ten times that of the average rifle bu…
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For an asteroid to wipe out humans, it has to be bigger than the one that killed the dinosaurs
"But it does have the potential to be the most devastating natural disaster known to man," exp…
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It’s a record day for asteroids as three of them plan to fly past Earth
Aside from the fact that there will be three asteroids gunning for the planet, it's even rar…
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Another pair of asteroids is going to whiz past Earth on 14 September — Bigger, faster but further away
Two asteroids already whizzed past Earth this week and now, two more are set to fly by on 14 Sept…
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An asteroid discovered a week ago will be flying closest to earth tonight
An asteroid dubbed 2019 QE1 will fly past the Earth tonight. But, astronomers only spotted it on 22…
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A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will whiz past earth at 49,000 km/hr on Friday
When it blasts past Earth on 6 September 2019, it will be flying at a speed of 49,000 kilomete…
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The 10 biggest asteroids that could crash into Earth in 2019
In order to keep that from happening, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Near Earth Orbit (NEO…
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An Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid is about to whiz by Earth. When it returns in 8 years, it could cross paths with our satellites.
On Friday night, the asteroid Apophis will pass by Earth. When it returns in 2029, its orbit may pu…
Aylin Woodward
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No other asteroid is going to get closer to Earth in the next decade than the one set to fly by on September 1
Many asteroids come and go but most keep their distance from Earth as they fly past. Now one daring…
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A space telescope that could protect Earth from asteroids has been stuck in 'NASA mission limbo hell' - but it may finally escape
A telescope in orbit could track asteroids that may crash into Earth. But no such mission has moved…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Asteroid Day is on June 30 — and it’s the one day no asteroid will be making its close approach
Asteroid Day is on June 30 and ironically no asteroid has any plans of flying anywhere close to Ear…
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NASA has led 7 asteroid-impact simulations. Only once did experts figure out how to stop the space rock from hitting Earth.
Since 2013, NASA has been leading exercises in which experts confront a fictitious Earth-bound aste…
Aylin Woodward
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The 10 biggest asteroids that pose a threat to Earth in 2020
There are swarms of millions of asteroids in the Solar System. Most of them keep to themselves as t…