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Earth has a new ‘mini-moon’ — and it’s not the first
The Moon isn’t the only space rock orbiting the Earth. A new mini-moon was spotted circling the pla…
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A second space rock hit Earth after the one that doomed the dinosaurs - a nail in the coffin of the mass extinction
After a space rock struck Earth 66 million years ago - killing the dinosaurs - another asteroid hit…
Aylin Woodward
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Here’s how you can watch the biggest asteroid of 2020 live as it zooms past the Earth
The good news is that you don’t have to be an expert astronomer or scientist in order to catch t…
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A comet may have melted one of the world’s oldest civilisations to a crisp at more than 2,200 degrees Celsius
Abu Hureyra, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, might have been crushed by cosmic collisi…
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Another pair of asteroids is going to whiz past Earth on 14 September — Bigger, faster but further away
Two asteroids already whizzed past Earth this week and now, two more are set to fly by on 14 Sept…
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The asteroid NASA is about to strike poses no threat to Earth, but 60% of city-killer rocks fly under the radar
NASA's DART mission is about to practice deflecting an asteroid away from Earth. But NASA can't pro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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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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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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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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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NASA is rushing to hold onto its first sample of asteroid dust before too much leaks into space: 'Time is of the essence'
A valve on the probe's sample-collecting arm won't close, and bits of asteroid are floating away. T…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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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…
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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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NASA has led 7 asteroid-impact simulations. Only once did experts figure out how to stop the space rock from hitting Earth.
Since 2013, NASA has been leading exercises in which experts confront a fictitious Earth-bound aste…
Aylin Woodward
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Not an asteroid but massive volcanic eruptions in India might have set off mass extinction 66 million years ago
"For the first time, we can provide insights into the distinct climatic and environmental …
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Photos show the 3.86 billion-mile journey of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission from start to finish
NASA's OSIRIS-REx traveled almost 4 billion miles to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu. Scientists…
Jenny McGrath
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Watch NASA launch a probe to smash into an asteroid. It's practice for pushing city-killing space rocks away from Earth.
NASA may one day need to save Earth from an incoming asteroid. The plan: launching a spacecraft to …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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NASA will preserve asteroid samples from OSIRIS-Rex for centuries to come so that scientists not even born yet can study them
The asteroid samples landed in the Utah desert Sunday morning, ending NASA's first ever mission to …