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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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The space rock that doomed the dinosaurs was shrapnel from a comet that flew too close to the sun, a Harvard study suggests
The origin of the space rock that killed the dinosaurs has been a mystery. A new study suggests it …
Aylin Woodward
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A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid bigger than Earth's tallest skyscraper is about to fly near our planet
"We have been tracking this asteroid for over 14 years and know its orbit very accurately," Paul Ch…
Dave Mosher
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What Elon Musk's 42,000 Starlink satellites could do for — and to — earth
Elon Musk is hoping to send 42,000 satellites to space to bring high-speed internet to every part o…
Michelle Yan,Bob Hunt,Dave Mo…
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A star is hurtling towards our solar system and could knock millions of asteroids straight towards Earth
However, the Gliese 710 event could make the dinosaur extinction look relatively minor. At its clos…
Lindsay Dodgson
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The Hubble telescope caught an asteroid ripping itself to pieces due to the 'YORP effect'
The effect is something like a parent swinging a kid around by her arms; once the parent rotates fa…
Dave Mosher
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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…
Ajai Raj
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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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This is what would happen if a comet smacked into Earth
If a comet of this size struck Earth, the energy of the impact would be about 300 times that of the…
Ali Sundermier
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Jupiter got hit by a planet 10 times the mass of Earth billions of years ago, and its core is still reeling, a new study suggests
One explanation, he said, could be that those observations are showing violent, head-on collisions …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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A diamond-encrusted meteorite that fell to Earth may come from a long-lost planet in our solar system
"Diamonds very often encapsulate and trap minerals and melts present in their formation environment…
Dave Mosher
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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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A mysterious chunk of space debris called 'WTF' is headed straight for Earth
Because of its highly eccentric orbit, some experts think the object could be a residual rocket sta…
Jessica Orwig
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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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A rare collision between Earth and space junk is happening tomorrow - here's how to watch
Scientists hope to use their observations to improve predictive models of how objects interact with…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists Just Figured Out How The Oldest Things On Earth Formed
The researchers predict that the zircon could have been created when the biggest meteors, some of w…
Leslie Baehr
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The Quadrantids are the first meteor shower of 2024. Here's where to look and the best time to see it.
The Quadrantids are the first meteor shower of 2024 — and the best, per NASA. Here's where to look …
Jessica Orwig
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How antimatter engines could fly humans to other stars in just a few years
Antimatter isn't just a sci-fi trope. Ryan Weed has been working on designing an antimatter propuls…
Adam Barnes
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An unknown buyer used $4.3 million in cryptocurrency to buy a billion-year-old space diamond from Sotheby's
The Enigma is an extremely rare, black 555.55-carat diamond. It was sold to an unidentified buyer w…