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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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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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NASA monitoring asteroids hurtling toward Earth at ferocious speeds
According to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA's asteroid tracker, two a…
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Just Look Up: Giant asteroid the size of Qutub Minar to pass dangerously close to Earth
It is not just natural calamities and deadly viruses that may end the human race, giant asteroids h…
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NASA launches DART probe on a head-on collision course with an asteroid
NASA is testing a method it might one day use to save Earth from a city-killing asteroid. Ramming a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA launch a probe to smash into an asteroid. It's practice for pushing city-killing space rocks away from Earth.
NASA may one day need to save Earth from an incoming asteroid. The plan: launching a spacecraft to …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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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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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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The Arecibo telescope's 900-ton platform has crashed into its disk below and destroyed the iconic radio observatory
One of Earth's key radio telescopes fell in on itself, dealing a major blow to astronomers' searche…
Aylin Woodward,Dave Mosher,Mo…
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The iconic Arecibo telescope faces an imminent, catastrophic collapse. Engineers are now racing to deconstruct it.
One of Earth's two key radio observatories has been damaged beyond repair. The loss is a major blow…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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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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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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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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An asteroid the size of the Statue of Liberty is set to narrowly miss Earth this week
The asteroid, dubbed 2010 WC9 will come closer to our planet than any asteroid of its size has in t…
Jeremy Berke
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NASA is finally planning to launch a space telescope to detect deadly asteroids before they hit Earth. Here's how it could work.
"This is a great step forward for thinking about human destiny, because the dinosaurs certainly did…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid after blasting it with a bullet. The mission will bring back rock samples to Earth.
But Bennu has already made a significant finding: In December, before it entered orbit around Bennu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronaut says a neglected telescope is NASA's best chance of defending Earth from 'city killer' asteroids - 'for God's sake, fund it'
The NASA competition it was a part of, called Discovery, values scientific firsts - not ensuring hu…
Dave Mosher
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A whale-sized asteroid will zoom by Earth next week for the second time in recorded history
"There is no concern whatsoever regarding this asteroid - unless you were interested in seeing it w…
Jessica Orwig
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Here Are The 1400 Potentially Earth-Ending Asteroids Circling Our Planet
To make this list an asteroid has to be "relatively large and close" — at least 460 feet in diamete…
Robert Ferris
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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…