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4 asteroids — including one plane sized and two house sized objects — to approach the Earth today, NASA warns: here’s all we know
NASA is tracking several asteroids that will pass near Earth in October 2024, none pose any direct …
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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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Why did some birds survive when dinosaurs went extinct? Molting feathers could hold a clue
Feathers preserved in amber could suggest some ancient birds molted differently than modern birds, …
Jenny McGrath
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NASA is intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday. Here's how to watch the collision live.
NASA's DART mission will crash into Dimorphos, a small asteroid 6.8 million miles away, to test our…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA crashes DART spacecraft into an asteroid, testing a tactic to bump space rocks away from Earth
NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to knock it off its path. It's the first te…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Marianne Gu…
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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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Scientists shot tardigrades out of a gun at more than 2,000 mph to see if the critters could survive
A spacecraft carrying tardigrades crashed on the moon in 2019. In a 2021 study, scientists set out …
Aylin Woodward
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Stunning New Details From The Largest Asteroid Impact In A Century
Thanks to cell phones, dashboard video cameras, and other recording devices, researchers have been …
Dina Spector
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In the event of a killer asteroid, volcanic apocalypse, or nuclear holocaust, mushrooms could save humanity from extinction
That would not help in the aftermath of a catastrophe that puts humans at risk of extinction, he sa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs might not have killed them all if it hit somewhere else
In the new study, the authors write that the cooling event was only so severe because the asteroid …
Kevin Loria
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs triggered devastating underwater eruptions - which changes how we understand their extinction
There were at least three nearly simultaneous events involved in the global catastrophe that ended …
Kevin Loria
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs triggered a global disaster far worse than scientists previously thought
Scientists already knew that the impact - called the Chicxulub event - released an amount of energy…
Dave Mosher
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The asteroid that obliterated the dinosaurs came uncomfortably close to wiping out mammals too
The researchers analyzed fossil records from western North America from around 68 million years ago…
Ali Sundermier
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Incredible GIF Shows Early Earth Being Pummeled By Asteroids
Based on their models Earth could have been hit by up to four cosmic projectiles larger than 600 mi…
Leslie Baehr
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A 'Nation-Busting' Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2036
Comets are different from asteroids for a number of reasons. The biggest difference is that asteroi…
Dina Spector
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Researchers say tiny 'water bears' will survive until the sun explodes - and it's good news in the search for alien life
When researchers sequenced the creatures' genome in 2015, they found that nearly a sixth of tardigr…
Dana Varinsky
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A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a meteorite
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better pr…
Marianne Guenot
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The mystery of how the moon formed is still puzzling scientists. The secret could lie deep within our planet.
Scientists have several theories for how the moon first formed. The leading hypothesis involves a m…
Marianne Guenot
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A bright comet is heading towards Earth and could outshine the stars in the sky, say astronomers
Comet C/2023 A3 last visited Earth about 80,000 years ago. When it visits us in 2024, it could be a…