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Asteroid Day is next week — top five things you need to know
Asteroid Day happens on June 30 every year to mark the anniversary of the most devastating impact i…
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The last major asteroid to hit Earth destroyed 500 square kilometers — and it could have been much worse
As many as 800 asteroids are hovering around Earth, posing many a risk. But, these are just th…
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Asteroid Day — everything you need to know about the rocks in our solar system that could one day hit Earth
Asteroid Day is just around the corner and there are many questions that people have about asteroid…
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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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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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THE TUNGUSKA EVENT: This Is What Would Happen If Today's Flyby Asteroid Hit Earth
Scientists believe that a football field-sized, solid ice chunk of a comet entered Earth's atmosphe…
Sam Ro
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Stunning New Details From The Largest Asteroid Impact In A Century
Thanks to cell phones, dashboard video cameras, and other recording devices, researchers have been …
Dina Spector
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An asteroid the size of the Statue of Liberty is set to narrowly miss Earth this week
The asteroid, dubbed 2010 WC9 will come closer to our planet than any asteroid of its size has in t…
Jeremy Berke
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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…
Dave Mosher,Rob Ludacer,Rob L…
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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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Astronaut says a neglected telescope is NASA's best chance of defending Earth from 'city killer' asteroids - 'for God's sake, fund it'
The NASA competition it was a part of, called Discovery, values scientific firsts - not ensuring hu…
Dave Mosher
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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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Everything You Need To Know About The Asteroid Narrowly Missing Earth
Scientists think that if the asteroid were to hit land, it would produce a similar blast to one tha…
Dina Spector
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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…
Dina Spector
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Astronomers Have Never Seen An Asteroid This Big Come So Close To Earth
The asteroid, about half the size of a football field (150 feet in diameter), will however, only be…
Dina Spector
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An amateur astronomer caught one of the brightest fireballs ever seen on Jupiter. Watch the rare video footage.
An asteroid or comet smacked Jupiter on camera. Only a few impacts this big and bright have ever be…
Maiya Focht,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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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 …
Jeremy Berke
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Russian Meteor Hit Atmosphere With A Force Of 40 Hiroshima Bombs
Divers were this morning searching the Chelyabinsk region's frozen Lake Chebarkul for a fragment of…
The Telegraph
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Russia has plans to build missiles for space that could be fired at a moment's notice
"Most rockets work on boiling fuel. Their fueling begins 10 days before the launch and, therefore, …
Jessica Orwig
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A Giant Meteor Exploded Over Russia, Injuring Hundreds Of People [VIDEO]
Some fragments fell in a reservoir outside the town of Cherbakul, the regional governor's office sa…