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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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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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Planned crewed launch of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft called off
NASA announced on social media platform X that the problem was identified with an oxygen valve on p…
ANI
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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 is building an electric spacecraft to reach the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
A year from now, NASA will launch an electric spacecraft named Psyche to reach the asteroid belt be…
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The biggest asteroid of 2021 is going to zoom past Earth tonight flying as fast as 100,000 kmph
An asteroid twice as big as the Statue of Unity is set to zoom past Earth tonight flying at 100,000…
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Asteroids contain metals worth quintillions of dollars — but mining them won’t necessarily make your richer than Bezos or Musk
There are over a million asteroids that are being tracked by astronomers, and getting your hands on…
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Two tiny asteroids to zoom past Earth this Diwali — likely without any fireworks
While both of them are on the watch list of asteroids to track, it’s unlikely that they will b…
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Apophis, the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid is speeding up — increasing the likelihood of it hitting Earth in 2068
This is when the asteroid speeds up because its thermal radiation is no longer uniform. Simply p…
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An asteroid flew closer to Earth than the Moon — but nobody knew till two days later
Asteroids come and go, but we normally know when they’ll be flying past the planet. However, last m…
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Asteroid Day is next week — top five things you need to know
Asteroid Day happens on June 30 every year to mark the anniversary of the most devastating impact i…
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16 asteroids are set to fly past Earth in June — one that's more than twice the size of the Taj Mahal
June is a busy month for asteroids with over 17 asteroids that have already flown past the Earth wi…
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An asteroid is acting like a comet — confirming what scientists have speculated for years
Asteroid 2019 LD2 isn't your typical space rock, and it's not acting like it either.
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NASA sent a spaceship rocketing by an asteroid — and discovered the space rock has a little baby one dancing around it
NASA's Lucy spacecraft discovered that the asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid system.
Sonam Sheth
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The 10 biggest asteroids that pose a threat to Earth in 2020
There are swarms of millions of asteroids in the Solar System. Most of them keep to themselves as t…
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Eiffel Tower sized asteroid set to zoom past Earth today
Aside from the size, asteroid has impressive speed as well. Observations show that it will b…
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Here’s how you can watch the biggest asteroid of 2020 live as it zooms past the Earth
The good news is that you don’t have to be an expert astronomer or scientist in order to catch t…
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There are 19 interstellar asteroids between Jupiter and Neptune — and even computers can’t predict where they are headed
Interstellar asteroids — asteroids from outside our solar system — may not be as rare as we once …
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A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is about to pass Earth. Here's how to track it.
The asteroid, which is about a half-mile wide, has been studied by scientists for decades and will …
Emily Walsh
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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…