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An asteroid as big as the San Francisco bridge is set to whizz past Earth after Valentine’s Day
Within hours of Valentines Day coming to a close, Asteroid 2020 PZ39 is going to whizz past Earth.
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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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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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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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Ufologist claims the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid will strike somewhere over Europe
Ufologist Michael Horn claims that the God of Chaos asteroid will strike somewhere between the Nort…
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An asteroid that whizzed past Earth last week had its own Moon
Asteroids fly past Earth on a daily basis. More often than not, it’s more than one asteroid on any …
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A comet may have melted one of the world’s oldest civilisations to a crisp at more than 2,200 degrees Celsius
Abu Hureyra, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, might have been crushed by cosmic collisi…
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NASA and the European Space Agency are meeting to defend the Earth against asteroids
ESA, NASA and other researchers from around the world are meeting up in Rome next week to ch…
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It might not be 'dinosaur destroying' but it's only a matter of time before an asteroid hits Earth
But, considering their frequency, scientists believe it’s only a matter of time before one o…
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Two potentially hazardous asteroids have been ruled out as a threat to Earth — but a bigger one is on the way
Two asteroids are coming awfully close the planet on 14 September 2019 but the Planetary Defence Co…
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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 gets caught changing colours for the very first time
Asteroid’s aren’t supposed to leave two trails of dust behind them — and neither were they supposed…
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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's first planetary defense test worked, successfully redirecting an asteroid by crashing the DART spacecraft into it
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has proved that NASA could potentially push a hazardous…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
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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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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In a NASA simulation of an asteroid impact, scientists concluded they couldn't stop a space rock from decimating Europe
Space agencies participated in a week-long NASA exercise in which they tried - and failed - to stop…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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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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In its first 100 days, the James Webb telescope peered deep into space, took beauty shots of faraway galaxies and glittering nebulae, and saw a spacecraft slam into an asteroid
Since July, the powerful infrared telescope has sent hundreds of observations back to scientists on…