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‘God of Chaos’ asteroid Apophis won’t be crashing into Earth for at least another century
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has determined that the ‘God of Chaos’ ast…
Asteroid Day — everything you need to know about the rocks in our solar system that could one day hit Earth
Asteroid Day is just around the corner and there are many questions that people have about asteroid…
Adam Driver asked NASA how it plans to save Earth from world-ending asteroids
Adam Driver wondered how NASA would save the world if a giant asteroid were approaching. Three spac…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Apophis, the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid is speeding up — increasing the likelihood of it hitting Earth in 2068
This is when the asteroid speeds up because its thermal radiation is no longer uniform. Simply p…
Asteroid Day is next week — top five things you need to know
Asteroid Day happens on June 30 every year to mark the anniversary of the most devastating impact i…
An asteroid flew closer to Earth than the Moon — but nobody knew till two days later
Asteroids come and go, but we normally know when they’ll be flying past the planet. However, last m…
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…
An asteroid as big as the San Francisco bridge is set to whizz past Earth after Valentine’s Day
Within hours of Valentines Day coming to a close, Asteroid 2020 PZ39 is going to whizz past Earth.
NASA's 'Lucy' is going to travel 4 billion miles to explore seven Trojan asteroids — and an asteroid Moon
While conducting reconnaissance on their first target — Eurybates — the team was surprised to …
An asteroid only turns into a meteor if it falls to Earth
Space agencies keep an eye out for these objects have come to realise that the asteroids having …
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.
NASA launches DART probe on a head-on collision course with an asteroid
NASA is testing a method it might one day use to save Earth from a city-killing asteroid. Ramming a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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…
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
Scientists claim they've found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago
Dinosaur fossils found at Tanis in North Dakota are believed to date back to the mass extinction ev…
Marianne Guenot,Alia Shoaib
Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
The asteroid NASA crashed into looks like a comet now, with a forked tail, Hubble image reveals
NASA is watching the asteroid Dimorphos closely since the DART spacecraft slammed into it. The come…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
The biggest asteroid of 2021 is going to zoom past Earth tonight flying as fast as 100,000 kmph
An asteroid twice as big as the Statue of Unity is set to zoom past Earth tonight flying at 100,000…
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
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…