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Earth, asteroid and European Space Agency

The Associated Press on MSN · 19h

A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test

A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock threatens Earth.

Spacecraft launches to investigate asteroid threats to Earth

The European Space Agency will probe a harmless asteroid Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test".

Phys.org on MSN · 18h

Near-Earth asteroid data help probe possible fifth force in universe

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information about the universe gleaned from the sample itself, the data generated by OSIRIS-REx might also present an opportunity to probe new physics.

dinosaur, Asteroid

Popular Science · 15h

The dinosaur-killing asteroid turned ants into farmers

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants. In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth 66 million years ago may be the major reason some of the insect species learned to farm millions of years before humans even evolved.

BroBible · 14h

Scientists Find Evidence It Wasn’t Just One Asteroid That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs

Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. There were two of them. It has

CNET on MSN · 16h

The Dinosaur Age Ended With Not One, but Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ocean.

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Spacecraft to launch towards knocked off course asteroid

The mission aims to re-visit the asteroid Nasa diverted when it crashed a probe into it.

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New study eases concerns over possible 'doomsday' asteroid swarm

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

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European mission departs Earth to investigate an asteroid wrecked by NASA

Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could ...

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Follow-up mission launched to examine rammed asteroid

Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the rocky pair, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 18 miles all the ...

19h

Europe launches Hera asteroid probe on SpaceX rocket

Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an ...

15h

SpaceX Launches ESA’s Hera Asteroid Mission

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft ...

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Exact time Big Ben-sized 'city killer' asteroid monitored by NASA will 'skim' Earth today

The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...

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