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The dinosaurs may have already been going extinct before the cataclysmic space rock hit Earth, new findings suggest
Did dinosaurs go extinct after a space rock hit Earth 66 million years ago, or were they already de…
Aylin Woodward
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A NASA probe successfully collected 2 oz. of space rock from a distant asteroid and is blasting its way back to Earth
OSIRIS-REx thrust away from an asteroid called Bennu on Monday, and aims to circle the sun twice be…
Marianne Guenot
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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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A comet has been spotted among Jupiter's ancient asteroids for the very first time
A centaur flying into a bunch of trojans sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but that is exact…
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The world's oldest asteroid struck Earth 2.2 billion years ago triggering one of the first global warming episodes in history
The world’s oldest asteroid struck 2.2 billion years ago and it might have been the reason why the …
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The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft orbited asteroid Bennu for two years, monitoring pebbles flying off of…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Unprecedented new video shows NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft landing on an asteroid and sucking up dust
In NASA's video, the probe creates a flurry of dust and rock — which is how it attempted to collect…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Irrfan Khan died of a neuroendocrine tumour — here's what makes the 'forgotten cancer' so dangerous
Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan fought a two-year battle against a neuroendocrine tumour before he pass…
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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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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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Ben Affleck says 'Armageddon' director forced him to 'be sexy' onscreen: 'They made me fix my teeth'
"It just turned out to be a long-form version of one of those male topless calendars," Affleck said…
Jason Guerrasio
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend. NASA's solar probe just spotted the giant trail of asteroid dust for the first time ever.
"The truly remarkable thing about the Parker Solar Probe mission is that it's also giving us answer…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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NASA is finally planning to launch a space telescope to detect deadly asteroids before they hit Earth. Here's how it could work.
"This is a great step forward for thinking about human destiny, because the dinosaurs certainly did…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid after blasting it with a bullet. The mission will bring back rock samples to Earth.
But Bennu has already made a significant finding: In December, before it entered orbit around Bennu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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An asteroid is about to slip between Earth and the moon - and it'll be the second in 3 weeks
Asteroid 2017 BX, according to Slooh and NASA JPL data, is similar to asteroid 2017 AG13, which fle…
Dave Mosher
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This is the first photo of a distant star completely destroying an asteroid
"The diameter of the gap inside of the debris ring is 700,000 kilometres, approximately half the si…
Kelly Dickerson
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Astronaut says a neglected telescope is NASA's best chance of defending Earth from 'city killer' asteroids - 'for God's sake, fund it'
The NASA competition it was a part of, called Discovery, values scientific firsts - not ensuring hu…
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…