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Asteroid Nearly Hits Earth in Siberian Fireball
An asteroid just came careening into our atmosphere, burning up in a dramatic fireball over Russia. The asteroid, formally named 2024 XA1, measured about 28 inches across, and had only been ...
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NASA Smashed An Asteroid, And Now The Debris Is Headed Right For Us
When NASA smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft in 2022 on purpose, it was seen as a technological triumph because it demonstrated that humans ...
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There May Be Water On Psyche, The Asteroid ‘Worth $10,000 Quadrillion’
massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected hydrated minerals on the surface of asteroid 16 Psyche. The asteroid is one of the ...
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NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards our planet, zipping past us twice as close as our own moon today. The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is one of the first handful of asteroids ...
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Asteroid Heading Toward Earth Blazes Across Sky in Fireball Over Siberia
The European Space Agency said that the asteroid, which was about 27.5 inches wide, was seen burning up across the sky on Dec. 3 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...
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This website lets you see what would happen if an asteroid hit your city or town
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if an asteroid slammed into your city or town?
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The world's largest space telescope just got an unexpected new role: asteroid hunter
A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos.
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2 huge asteroid strikes 36 million years ago didn't change Earth's climate over the long haul, study finds
Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.
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An asteroid the size of a football stadium isn’t hitting Earth, but it’ll come closer than ever: Watch live tonight
An asteroid the “size of a football stadium” is moving at a fast pace toward Earth and will be visible via livestream in the early morning hours of Wednesday, December 4, when it makes its ...
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Space Mining Startup Confirms First Private Mission To An Asteroid
The mission will see its spacecraft, Vestri, dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown. The company announced the new mission alongside details of $40 ...
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NASA announces that an asteroid hit Earth and what the consequences were
According to several preliminary reports, the asteroid posed no danger to the planet and its inhabitants, although it did not go unnoticed by the dazzling light event in the skies over Eastern ...