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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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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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An asteroid that's just a fraction of a mile wide could wipe out New York City
"Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significan…
Lydia Ramsey
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Astronomers Are Planning Dramatic Ways To Stop An Asteroid Collision
There are other approaches. The European Space Agency is working on a mission called Don Quijote th…
The Economist
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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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Astronomers Have Never Seen An Asteroid This Big Come So Close To Earth
The asteroid, about half the size of a football field (150 feet in diameter), will however, only be…
Dina Spector
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The way we might protect ourselves from an exploding star could help us find alien civilizations
Ice is plentiful in space. The Kuiper Belt, on the outer edges of our solar system, is full of it. …
Kevin Loria
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Neutron star collision can annihilate Earth’s ozone layer, leaving it devoid of life for thousands of years
Very recently, a team of scientists decided to explore the hypothetical possibility of such a kilon…
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What happens if you break the law in space — and 3 times people or governments have tested the rules
The Outer Space Treaty says space should be free for use by all nations and that celestial bodies s…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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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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First 'intact' planet found circling a dead star — this Jupiter-sized anomaly is in orbit rather than being pulled apart at the seams
This Jupiter-sized anomaly of a planet is part and parcel of a three-star system that lies 80 light…
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The Trump administration says the climate will warm by a disastrous amount - and there are few plans to address it
The predicted effects of climate change are starting to become a reality. Wildfires have torn throu…
Jeremy Berke
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This is what would happen if a comet smacked into Earth
If a comet of this size struck Earth, the energy of the impact would be about 300 times that of the…
Ali Sundermier
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Up to 1 million species are facing extinction, according to a new UN report. Without them, we could run out of food.
But according to the report, about 10% of the world's insect species are in decline. It calculated …
Aylin Woodward
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A surprising factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs may have been how long their eggs took to hatch
Compared to reptiles, birds lay few eggs, and they are particularly large. This could hamper their …
Kevin Loria
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An ancient volcano near Rome is rumbling back to life
Records of its previous eruption suggests that under the right conditions, Colli Albani could produ…
Simone M. Scully
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Most Of The Earth's Species Are About To Be Destroyed In A Giant Mass Extinction
To avoid the sixth mass extinction we will probably have to employ more aggressive conservation, su…
Lauren F Friedman
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A Giant Meteor Exploded Over Russia, Injuring Hundreds Of People [VIDEO]
Some fragments fell in a reservoir outside the town of Cherbakul, the regional governor's office sa…