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An asteroid nearly half the size of Mount Everest might be on a collision course for Earth in less than a year
An asteroid that stretches for four kilometers, half the of Mount Everest’s height, could be on a c…
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Videos captured a fireball flashing across the Toronto skyline before it struck Earth near Niagara Falls
One video shows the fireball streak past Toronto's CN Tower, while another from a home security cam…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Second mysterious interstellar space object to fly through our solar system has an official name
Now it officially has a name — 2I/Borisov. The 2I represents that it’s the second interstellar…
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Two asteroids bigger than the Japan tsunamis are coming eerily close to Earth today
Asteroids whiz past Earth on a regular basis but it’s rare to see two of them gunning for the plane…
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Potentially hazardous giant asteroid to skim past Earth on Thursday: NASA
According to the Centre, as they orbit the Sun, the NEOs can occasionally approach close to Earth. …
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What happens when an asteroid actually hits Earth
And it only seems more likely since, despite the Center of Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) a…
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A car-size asteroid flew within 1,830 miles of Earth over the weekend — the closest pass ever — and we didn't see it coming
The asteroid, known as 2020 GQ or ZTF0DxQ, flew so close to Earth that it's now the closest known e…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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NASA is finally planning to launch a space telescope to detect deadly asteroids before they hit Earth. Here's how it could work.
"This is a great step forward for thinking about human destiny, because the dinosaurs certainly did…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Airplane-size asteroid to cross Earth's orbit tomorrow
An asteroid the size of an airplane is set to cross the Earth's orbit on Wednesday, according to NA…
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Mystery solved: NASA confirmed the space object that just zipped past Earth is a 1960s rocket booster
Earth's gravity briefly captured the old Centaur booster, leftover from a failed moon mission. It's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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This space mission could save Earth from killer asteroids - but NASA keeps hitting the snooze button
Take the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for example, which is one of Earth's best current …
Dave Mosher
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'Planet killer' asteroid hidden by the sun may threaten Earth in a few thousand years
Asteroids orbiting between Earth and the sun are especially hard to find, but NASA can't deflect ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 'city-killer' asteroid got scarily close to Earth yesterday, and astronomers didn't know about it until it was just days away
But an asteroid doesn't need to be miles wide to cause significant damage. In 1908, a space ro…
Aylin Woodward
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Comet Neowise is a dazzling sight, but it's also a reminder of how woefully unprepared we are for dangerous asteroids
A NASA telescope spotted Comet Neowise by sheer luck three months ago. If the comet were a killer a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists think they've observed a black hole swallowing a neutron star for the first time. It made ripples in space and time, as Einstein predicted.
Scott's team think the ripples in spacetime from this event, also known as gravitational waves, jus…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Over a million space rocks could strike Earth with more energy than a nuclear bomb, and we don't know where most of them are
According to a new report the agency released earlier this month - which is based on a 2016 report …