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4 asteroids — including one plane sized and two house sized objects — to approach the Earth today, NASA warns: here’s all we know
NASA is tracking several asteroids that will pass near Earth in October 2024, none pose any direct …
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Seeds of life among the stars: MIT scientists find complex carbon molecules in a distant cloud, pointing to clues to Earth’s beginnings!
This discovery supports the idea that life's building blocks were present early in the Solar System…
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Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could help prevent a future mass extinction on Earth.
Thanks to the presence of an rare element called ruthenium, scientists think they know where the as…
Jenny McGrath
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NASA simulated an incoming asteroid impact, and the biggest roadblock to action was penny pinching
NASA gathered about 100 experts to practice a hypothetical discovery of an asteroid with a 72% chan…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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10 celestial events to look forward to this October!
This October, the night sky promises a celestial showcase with breathtaking events like a "ring of…
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2 'potentially hazardous' asteroids will streak by Earth this week, one as big as a mountain. You can watch it live.
On Thursday and Saturday, two different asteroids will hurtle past Earth at close range. You can wa…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Why yesterday's SpaceX launch was such a huge deal for space travel
Elon Musk's Starship rocket achieved a world first on Sunday after its Super Heavy booster was caug…
Ellie Zolfagharifard,Morgan M…
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The Earth had a Saturn-like ring of its own once, a shocking new study has suggested
Scientists suggest Earth had a colossal ring of space debris 466 million years ago, leading to mete…
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Forget distant fly-bys of giant rocks—this plane-sized asteroid will come within 1.7 million km of Earth this week!
Come Friday, this near-Earth object will make its closest approach to our planet in a decade!
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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth is about to get a 2nd moon, for 57 days only. Here's what you need to know.
A moonlet from the Arjuna asteroid belt is set to fall into Earth's orbit for 57 days. The school-b…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Last week, an asteroid pair came dangerously close to Earth, posed for some pictures and left!
Both asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 came in peace and were more than happy to be papped. 2011 UL21…
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Crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid may have changed its shape in addition to its trajectory, NASA scientists find
Recent research suggests that DART may have done more than just redirect Dimorphos; it might have s…
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NASA explains how it would alert the public of an apocalyptic asteroid strike
In the event an asteroid is headed for Earth, here's how NASA plans to alert the public of an impen…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have huge plans in space, but there are no laws or regul…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see
A Menlo Park, California, lab built this camera to learn about dark energy and dark matter, flag ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Bengaluru-based Pixxel Space plans to mine asteroids for building settlements in space
Satellites can look for ice on asteroids which can be used as fuel by splitting it into hydrogen an…
PTI
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One of India's ancient geological features might have helped kill off the dinosaurs millions of years ago!
The Deccan Traps are a series of lava flows that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period, span…
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Icy pebbles may be carrying water to developing planets across the cosmos!
Scientists, exploring the origins of water on Earth and other exoplanets, may have uncovered a prom…
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We put Elon Musk's dream to colonize Mars up against Jeff Bezos' vision of living in space — and one is more realistic
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dream of colonizing space, but have very different ideas of how to do it. …