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Earth is about to get a 2nd moon, for 57 days only. Here's what you need to know.
A moonlet from the Arjuna asteroid belt is set to fall into Earth's orbit for 57 days. The school-b…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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2 'potentially hazardous' asteroids will streak by Earth this week, one as big as a mountain. You can watch it live.
On Thursday and Saturday, two different asteroids will hurtle past Earth at close range. You can wa…
Ellyn Lapointe
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A football stadium-sized asteroid will blaze by Earth today. Here's how to watch the potentially hazardous 'city killer' live.
Watch live as a "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a football stadium whips past Earth to…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Jason Schwartzman will think about working on 'Megalopolis' with Francis Ford Coppola 'til the day I die'
Jason Schwartzman stars in "Between the Temples," and will soon appear in Francis Ford Coppola's "M…
Palmer Haasch
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NASA released the first close-up photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected
NASA's OSIRIS-REx dropped off the Bennu asteroid sample last month. Scientists discovered the rocky…
Jenny McGrath
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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NASA scientists plan to bake, slice, and fire lasers at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx to understand the creation of our solar system
Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to …
Maiya Focht
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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…
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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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The smallest dwarf planet in our solar system was hiding in the asteroid belt
Hygiea isn’t a new discovery but the fact that it meets the International Astronomical Union’s (…
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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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NASA is finally advancing a space telescope that could track down dangerous asteroids before they strike Earth
Potentially hazardous asteroids often skim past Earth without warning. A space telescope that looks…