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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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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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Elon Musk says we have no defence against asteroid ‘God of Chaos'
Apophis, also known as the 'God of Chaos' asteroid, will be making its way to Earth in ten years. …
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NASA is intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday. Here's how to watch the collision live.
NASA's DART mission will crash into Dimorphos, a small asteroid 6.8 million miles away, to test our…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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An asteroid was supposed to hit Earth in September — but astronomers can’t seem to find it
An asteroid which was expected to hit the Earth on 9 September 2019 might, not be on its way to E…
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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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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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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 Gu…
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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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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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Telescopes and satellites captured clouds and spider-like plumes of debris after NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid
NASA's DART spacecraft didn't survive the mission, but both ground-and space-based observations doc…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA launches DART probe on a head-on collision course with an asteroid
NASA is testing a method it might one day use to save Earth from a city-killing asteroid. Ramming a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA has plans to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid, to test if it can change the course of killer asteroids in the future
The DART mission aims to crash a low-cost spacecraft into Dimorphos, an asteroid about the size of …
Matthew Loh
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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…