Feb 14
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An asteroid that whizzed within 3 million miles of Earth last week turned out to be two objects in a binary system,…
Dec 2
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The European Space Agency has approved the budget of Hera, the European component of a mission to slam a spacecraft…
Sep 25 2019
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NASA will begin developing a space-based telescope to track the asteroids near Earth, according to a statement by…
Jul 26 2019
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This week, an asteroid flew by the Earth, coming as close as 44342 miles away. No, you shouldn’t worry about this…
Jul 16 2019
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Breaking news for all you doomsday lovers out there: The 20-50 meter asteroid 2006 QV8 will NOT hit the Earth on…
May 8 2019
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If you really want to prepare for an asteroid impact, you might as well simulate some of the worst possible outcomes—…
May 1 2019
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While space agencies simulate an asteroid impact this week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference, there’s a real…
Apr 26 2019
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NASA, FEMA, and other national and international agencies are once again gearing up for a hypothetical asteroid…
Mar 4 2019
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On October 12, 2017, a 20-meter asteroid passed just 50,000 kilometers (31,000 miles) from Earth. For weeks, dozens…
Jun 21 2018
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We’ve long said that humans generally worry about the wrong asteroids. Tabloids love to publish headlines about…
Jun 4 2018
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A meteor lit up the sky over Botswana, Africa, early Saturday evening. Scientists discovered the six-foot-wide…
Apr 17 2018
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An asteroid approximately the size of a football field flew close by Earth only a day after it was first spotted…
Aug 12 2013
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NASA has put together an image showing the orbits of all known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) currently…