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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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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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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 released the first close-up photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected
NASA's OSIRIS-REx dropped off the Bennu asteroid sample last month. Scientists discovered the rocky…
Jenny McGrath
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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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NASA is sending a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid — here’s why
DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, and the spacecraft will launch aboard SpaceX's…
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Scientists claim they've found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago
Dinosaur fossils found at Tanis in North Dakota are believed to date back to the mass extinction ev…
Marianne Guenot,Alia Shoaib
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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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No other asteroid is going to get closer to Earth in the next decade than the one set to fly by on September 1
Many asteroids come and go but most keep their distance from Earth as they fly past. Now one daring…
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An asteroid half the size of Mount Everest is set to fly past Earth in April — but it's not going to end the planet
Bigger than most average asteroids, normally a few feet in size, the asteroid does not pose a th…
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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…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Earth has a new ‘mini-moon’ — and it’s not the first
The Moon isn’t the only space rock orbiting the Earth. A new mini-moon was spotted circling the pla…
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A comet has been spotted among Jupiter's ancient asteroids for the very first time
A centaur flying into a bunch of trojans sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but that is exact…
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Elon Musk's Tesla and its 'Starman' driver just flew past Mars for the first time, 2 years after SpaceX launched the car into the void
From Musk's old Roadster — a "hood ornament" on a Falcon Heavy rocket stage — Mars would look about…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck at a perfect angle to inflict maximum planetwide damage, a study found
The asteroid 66 million years ago that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs hit at a 60-degree an…
Aylin Woodward
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Shooting stars beckon in the New Year this weekend. Here's how to spot the fireballs of the Quadrantids meteor shower.
NASA says the Quadrantids are one of the best meteor showers. A bright moon may outshine some of th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend, with hundreds of multicolored shooting stars. Here's how to watch.
A moonless night will let the Geminids shine as bits of space rock burn up in Earth's atmosphere an…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Japan has completed its 3-billion-mile mission to collect dust from an asteroid. Photos show the prize falling into Australia like a fireball.
The world now has its first asteroid samples. A Japanese spacecraft bombed asteroid Ryugu to collec…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Japanese spacecraft is about to send a 'treasure box' of asteroid dust plummeting to Earth. Watch the sample return live.
Hayabusa-2 is set to drop bits of asteroid rock down into the Australian outback on Saturday - the …