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NASA simulated an incoming asteroid impact, and the biggest roadblock to action was penny pinching

NASA gathered about 100 experts to practice a hypothetical discovery of an asteroid with a 72% chan…

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NASA explains how it would alert the public of an apocalyptic asteroid strike

In the event an asteroid is headed for Earth, here's how NASA plans to alert the public of an impen…

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Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see

A Menlo Park, California, lab built this camera to learn about dark energy and dark matter, flag ha…

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NASA released the first close-up photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected

NASA's OSIRIS-REx dropped off the Bennu asteroid sample last month. Scientists discovered the rocky…

Jenny McGrath   


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NASA probe heads for metal-rich asteroid worth $10 quintillion after launch on SpaceX rocket

With help from Elon Musk's SpaceX, NASA successfully launched a probe headed for an asteroid brimmi…

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Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could help prevent a future mass extinction on Earth.

Thanks to the presence of an rare element called ruthenium, scientists think they know where the as…

Jenny McGrath   


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NASA is visiting an asteroid valued at more than the entire world economy's worth, but that's not why it's going there

The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is thought to be made of 30% to 60% valuable metals, which could inc…

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NASA sent a spaceship rocketing by an asteroid — and discovered the space rock has a little baby one dancing around it

NASA's Lucy spacecraft discovered that the asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid system.

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Photos show the 3.86 billion-mile journey of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission from start to finish

NASA's OSIRIS-REx traveled almost 4 billion miles to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu. Scientists…

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NASA will preserve asteroid samples from OSIRIS-Rex for centuries to come so that scientists not even born yet can study them

The asteroid samples landed in the Utah desert Sunday morning, ending NASA's first ever mission to …

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NASA scientists plan to bake, slice, and fire lasers at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx to understand the creation of our solar system

Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to …

Maiya Focht   


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James Webb telescope detects an asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum

An asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum, between 300 and 650 feet, or 100 and 200 metres, …

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Planned crewed launch of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft called off

NASA announced on social media platform X that the problem was identified with an oxygen valve on p…

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Adam Driver asked NASA how it plans to save Earth from world-ending asteroids

Adam Driver wondered how NASA would save the world if a giant asteroid were approaching. Three spac…

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