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How large asteroids must be to destroy a city, state, country, or the planet

Some angry space rocks, like the recent Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over Russia, are big en…

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Facebook temporarily freezes Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's page for spreading COVID-19 misinformation

The Venezuelan President earlier termed the solution as "miracle drops" and a "medical breakth…

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An Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Is Zipping By The Earth This Weekend - Here's How To Watch

At an estimated 88 feet in diameter, 2014 RC is roughly the same size as the 98-foot-wide 2012 DA14…

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How to watch the 'spooky' asteroid flying unusually close to Earth on Halloween

Here, we used thee free app Stellarium to figure out where it would be in New York City at exactly …

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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 …

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Astronomers discovered unexpected activity on a giant asteroid that could point to something huge

"It is assumed that something comes out from [the] interior of the planet where there is a large am…

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Delhi's air quality dips to poor — may improve in coming days

The city recorded an overall air quality index (AQI) of 218 at 10:30 am, with Jahangirpuri (AQI …

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who just defeated a powerful House Democrat, has an asteroid named after her - here's why

Jenifer Evans, an electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab, was one of the lead scientists on LINEAR …

Dave Mosher   


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How dinosaurs took over the world

Turns out, the REAL sovereign of the era was the Allosaurus. Longer than a double decker bus, it di…

Gina Echevarria,Shira Polan   


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Here Are The 1400 Potentially Earth-Ending Asteroids Circling Our Planet

To make this list an asteroid has to be "relatively large and close" — at least 460 feet in diamete…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Supports Obama's Plan To Lasso An Asteroid

StarTalk Radio is a podcast and radio program hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, where…

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On the same day China landed a probe on the moon, the US's massive telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed

A step forward in space exploration for China and humankind, on the same day as a colossal step bac…

Azmi Haroun   


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Here's Why Astronomers Did Not Detect The Russia Meteor Ahead Of Time

In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kaza…

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India is ready to roll out COVID-19 vaccine for the masses within 10 days of approval, claims Health Ministry

India recently conducted a nationwide dry-run of the COVID-19 immunisation drive and the results sh…

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NASA's planet-hunter uncovers its first world with two stars 1,300 light-years away

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed its observations during the 235th …

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The 10 most important things in the world right now

1. North Korea has conducted a "successful" fifth nuclear test, in an explosion described as Pyongy…

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Confused about the potential Qualcomm-Intel deal? Here's why it matters even if it doesn't happen.

Doubts about the Qualcomm-Intel deal stem from uncertainty over how Intel's manufacturing fits into…

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