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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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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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This space mission could save Earth from killer asteroids - but NASA keeps hitting the snooze button
Take the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for example, which is one of Earth's best current …
Dave Mosher
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An asteroid just flew by Earth two times closer than the moon - and we barely saw it coming
Had a porous rock asteroid of 111 feet (34 meters) long hit Earth at a 45-degree angle, the simulat…
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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NASA Was Given $36 Million Extra To Find 90% Of Dangerous Asteroids - And They Failed
More recently, a fragment of an asteroid estimated to be just 59 feet (18 meters) in diameter explo…
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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…
Ajai Raj
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Obama Wants To Spend $100 Million To Lasso An Asteroid - Here's How It Could Actually Work
In President Obama's 2014 budget proposal, unveiled on Wednesday, the space agency called for a spe…
Dina Spector
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Scientists Track Down The Origins Of The Russian Meteor
Researchers calculated the trajectory of the meteoroid once it hit our planet's atmosphere using tr…
Dina Spector
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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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Russian Meteorite Not Related To Record-Close Asteroid Zooming By Earth Today
"The asteroid will travel south to north," Yeomans told Space.com. "The bolide trail was not south …
Dina Spector
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WATCH: Massive comet fragment blazes up in beautiful blue flames over Portugal and Spain
In Portugal, a fragment of an unidentified comet streaked through the atmosphere at a blistering 45…
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NASA chief warns people need to take the threat of a meteor crashing into Earth much more seriously
Scientific experts at this week's Planetary Defense Conference, which is bi-annual, plan to discuss…
Alexandra Ma
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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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Russia has plans to build missiles for space that could be fired at a moment's notice
"Most rockets work on boiling fuel. Their fueling begins 10 days before the launch and, therefore, …
Jessica Orwig
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An amateur astronomer accidentally recorded a rare flash on Jupiter. The culprit turned out to be a 450-ton meteor.
That fragmentation allowed Sankar and Palotai to make precise estimates of the meteor's density. Th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth is in the middle of a 'shooting gallery' and a new NASA initiative is trying to protect us
Right now NASA keeps tabs on these threats through its near-Earth object (NEO) observation program.…
Kelly Dickerson
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There's an unsettling reason why we know about the gigantic fireball that no one ever saw
"I can think of three ways to detect a big fireball in this case: Satellite observations, which wou…
Jessica Orwig
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Russians Thought The Meteor Was A Bomb Or Terrorist Attack
As the meteor burned up in the Earth's atmosphere, it sent down a shockwave that broke thousands of…