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NASA’s planetary defence system: The mission that plans to defend earth from asteroids, comets
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched a spacecraft to its first full-sc…
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NASA and Europe’s first target to keep an asteroid from hitting Earth has officially been dubbed Dimorphos
In the past, it has held many titles from Didymoon to S/2003 (65803) — it’s provisional designat…
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NASA gets $35 million to make sure asteroids don't destroy Earth
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) isn’t the only space agency tracking space…
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NASA and the European Space Agency are meeting to defend the Earth against asteroids
ESA, NASA and other researchers from around the world are meeting up in Rome next week to ch…
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Elon Musk says we have no defence against asteroid ‘God of Chaos'
Apophis, also known as the 'God of Chaos' asteroid, will be making its way to Earth in ten years. …
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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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Scientists discover Mercury-like exoplanet where a year is only eight hours long
Planet GJ 367b was discovered by scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Pl…
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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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Airplane-size asteroid to cross Earth's orbit tomorrow
An asteroid the size of an airplane is set to cross the Earth's orbit on Wednesday, according to NA…
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NASA is sending a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid — here’s why
DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, and the spacecraft will launch aboard SpaceX's…
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ExoMiner, a new machine learning method helped discover 301 exoplanets
A new deep neural network program called “ExoMiner” is helping scientists in discovering exoplanets…
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Two potentially hazardous asteroids have been ruled out as a threat to Earth — but a bigger one is on the way
Two asteroids are coming awfully close the planet on 14 September 2019 but the Planetary Defence Co…
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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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ISRO to carry first-ever French payload abroad Venus mission scheduled for 2025
New Delhi, Sep 30 () ISRO is scheduled to launch its Venus mission in 2025 and France will particip…
PTI
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The Earth did not get its water from asteroids — it may have had it all along
The prevailing theory on how the Earth got its water is that the planet was born dry and water was …
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A 1,100-foot-wide asteroid is on course to pass by Earth in a decade
Davide Farnocchia, an astronomer at JLP's Center for Near Earth Objects Studies said: "We already k…
Rebecca Speare-Cole
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Now, fourth tranche of Nirmala Sitharaman's stimulus plan as India preps for lockdown 4.0
The Finance Minister of India, Nirmala Sitharaman, unveiled the fourth tranche of the government pl…
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Telecom gear makers expect govt to clear BSNL, MTNL dues
"This will also mean that a lot of space grade material manufacturing processes, that are not in th…
PTI
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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 last major asteroid to hit Earth destroyed 500 square kilometers — and it could have been much worse
As many as 800 asteroids are hovering around Earth, posing many a risk. But, these are just th…