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The biggest asteroid of 2020 will zoom past Earth on April 29 — adhering to 'social distancing' and even wearing a mask

The biggest asteroid of the year doesn’t care that Earth is under lockdown — and it’s set to zoom p…

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Space Invaders, IRL: Japanese startup to zap space junk with ground-based laser beams!

EX-Fusion is an Osaka-based startup with a plan that's as audacious as it is ingenious: zapping spa…

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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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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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Second mysterious interstellar space object to fly through our solar system has an official name

Now it officially has a name — 2I/Borisov. The 2I represents that it’s the second interstellar…

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NASA is finally advancing a space telescope that could track down dangerous asteroids before they strike Earth

Potentially hazardous asteroids often skim past Earth without warning. A space telescope that looks…

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A space telescope that could protect Earth from asteroids has been stuck in 'NASA mission limbo hell' - but it may finally escape

A telescope in orbit could track asteroids that may crash into Earth. But no such mission has moved…

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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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What happens when an asteroid actually hits Earth

And it only seems more likely since, despite the Center of Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) a…

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Asteroid flying faster than a bullet will shoot past Earth today

Asteroid 2019 SR8 will be flying past Earth today at a speed ten times that of the average rifle bu…

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We'd need 5 to 10 years' notice to stop a killer asteroid heading for Earth

In a recent NASA simulation, scientists had six months to stop a hypothetical asteroid from hitting…

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A geoscientist explains what would happen if Earth suddenly stopped spinning

If you were standing on Earth's equator when it suddenly stopped spinning, you could go flying east…

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Alien 'dinosaurs' could be lurking on distant planets, scientists suggest

The researchers advocate for examining planets with high oxygen levels and even expanding our searc…

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Chandrayaan-3 mission: Only hours left for the lift-off

With only hours left for the lift-off, anticipation is building around the launch India's third lun…

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Chandrayaan 3: Countdown starts for India's third moon mission

35:17 IST ahead of take-off on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

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NASA to probe Uranus, aims to examine Saturn's moon that could support life

In a report, the team at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), recommend…

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Mystery solved: NASA confirmed the space object that just zipped past Earth is a 1960s rocket booster

Earth's gravity briefly captured the old Centaur booster, leftover from a failed moon mission. It's…

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to suck up asteroid rubble for the first time. Watch the risky maneuver live.

The NASA probe will attempt an intergalactic high-five with asteroid Bennu and use a robotic arm to…

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The Voyager spacecraft will probably last a billion years, says a scientist on the mission for nearly 5 decades

The Voyager spacecraft will run out of fuel soon, but a longtime mission scientist says they may co…

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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…