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The 10 biggest asteroids that could crash into Earth in 2019
In order to keep that from happening, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Near Earth Orbit (NEO…
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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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An asteroid only turns into a meteor if it falls to Earth
Space agencies keep an eye out for these objects have come to realise that the asteroids having …
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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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Giant asteroid to whizz past Earth on Oct 31
The asteroid, known as 2015 TB145, will pass our planet by only 499,000 kilometers — the closest pa…
PTI
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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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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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There's A Mysterious Meteor Shower Happening This Weekend
It was not until 1983 when a NASA's IRAS satellite helped identify the mysterious source - a small,…
Jessica Orwig
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Another pair of asteroids is going to whiz past Earth on 14 September — Bigger, faster but further away
Two asteroids already whizzed past Earth this week and now, two more are set to fly by on 14 Sept…
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A NASA probe successfully collected 2 oz. of space rock from a distant asteroid and is blasting its way back to Earth
OSIRIS-REx thrust away from an asteroid called Bennu on Monday, and aims to circle the sun twice be…
Marianne Guenot
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There's a mysterious meteor shower happening this weekend
There was one problem with their rock comet theory, however: The amount of dust this incident added…
Jessica Orwig
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An asteroid hunter reveals how she finds the space rocks that could destroy earth
There's one thing that could make the asteroid search a lot easier: a supercharged, dedicated aster…
Ariel Schwartz
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Astronomers Spot A Never-Before-Seen Comet-Like Thing In The Sky
Comets, on the hand, are typically made of ice, dust, and rock. When comets gets close to the sun, …
Dina Spector
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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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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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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…