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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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Two tiny asteroids to zoom past Earth this Diwali — likely without any fireworks
While both of them are on the watch list of asteroids to track, it’s unlikely that they will b…
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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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Telescopes and satellites captured clouds and spider-like plumes of debris after NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid
NASA's DART spacecraft didn't survive the mission, but both ground-and space-based observations doc…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A small asteroid that hit Botswana took 23 million years to get here from the asteroid belt, astronomers found
In 2018, an asteroid struck Botswana. Astronomers traced its origins to an ancient space rock in th…
Aylin Woodward
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A Harvard-led team is launching a new project to search for physical evidence of aliens and their technology
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb is leading the Galileo Project, a program that will search for signs of ext…
Aylin Woodward
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In its first 100 days, the James Webb telescope peered deep into space, took beauty shots of faraway galaxies and glittering nebulae, and saw a spacecraft slam into an asteroid
Since July, the powerful infrared telescope has sent hundreds of observations back to scientists on…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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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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NASA: A fridge-size asteroid is headed toward Earth one day before the November election
An asteroid has a 0.41% chance of entering the Earth's atmosphere on November 2, according to NASA.
Blake Dodge
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Why Japan is landing hopping robots on an asteroid
The rovers have already achieved their first hop. Now, this may be the first time Japan has landed …
Nathaniel Lee,Jessica Orwig
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That Mountain-Sized Asteroid That Flew By Earth On Monday Has A Tiny Little Moon
Scientists at NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California took 20 images of the aste…
Jessica Orwig
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The Hubble telescope caught an asteroid ripping itself to pieces due to the 'YORP effect'
The effect is something like a parent swinging a kid around by her arms; once the parent rotates fa…
Dave Mosher
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NASA will reach an asteroid today that may contain raw materials for life on Earth. Watch the rendezvous live.
According to NASA, Bennu (the asteroid formerly known as "1999 RQ36") is one such dirty asteroid in…
Dave Mosher
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If you haven't used your Google account in two years, your content may get deleted for good
Google is introducing new policies for consumer accounts, effective from June 1 next year, and if y…
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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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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 tiny European country just made an unprecedented move in the space mining business
"We commend the Government of Luxembourg in leading the world by establishing this new resource ind…
Jessica Orwig
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Meet The Tiny Robot Designed To Perform Surgery In Space
To try to solve this problem, researchers at a company called Virtual Incision are working on a tin…
Lauren F Friedman
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THE TUNGUSKA EVENT: This Is What Would Happen If Today's Flyby Asteroid Hit Earth
Scientists believe that a football field-sized, solid ice chunk of a comet entered Earth's atmosphe…
Sam Ro
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How to make money from medical research and donations
You can make good money from donating plasma or sperm on a regular basis. Other donations and scien…