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NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth Today
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
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If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?
Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t ...
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Ancient asteroid grains reveal hidden magnetic past of our solar system
MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...
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Hera asteroid probe 'waves goodbye' at Earth and moon from 2.3 million miles away (image)
DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, p ...
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NASA's 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth's atmosphere
The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...
Earth's powerful gravity might do a number on the asteroid Apophis
Named for the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis is capable of destroying a city if it were to strike ...
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Apophis: a European space mission gets up close with an asteroid set to brush by Earth
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
Skyscraper-sized asteroid and 4 others speed past Earth on the same day
Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...
Will ‘Apophis’ Hit Earth In 2029? We’ll Know In 2027, Scientist Says
An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists consider the chance extremely small.