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NASA spots large asteroid on collision course with the Moon

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

NASA spots huge asteroid on potential crash path with the Moon — here’s what we know

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...
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NASA's DART: Redirecting An Asteroid To Protect Earth

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Can Earth Face An Asteroid Collision In The End Of 2025? Nostradamus' Old Warning Resurfaces

In his book “Les Prophéties”, which Nostradamus wrote in 1555, there are some cryptic verses, which followers are now ...

Gaia Solves the Great Asteroid Spin Mystery

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...
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Were Dinos On Their Way Out Before The Asteroid Hit? Maybe Not

Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding beliefs, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

Scientists Think This Space Object Could Be From a Dead Civilization

The object, initially thought to be a meteorite, could actually be Zond 1, a Soviet spacecraft that was destined for Venus 60 ...

Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid, study finds

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in ...

What Is The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System? Earth Defenses On Alert As 3i Atlas Comet Might 'Hit' Earth

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...
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The Dinosaurs of North America Were Thriving Up Until an Asteroid Wiped Them Off the Face of the Earth, Scientists Argue

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...

700-Metre Asteroid Hides Inside Venus's Orbit, Completes Sun Circle In 128 Days

A fast-orbiting, 700-metre asteroid discovered within Venus's orbit highlights hidden near-Sun populations and underscores ...
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Dinosaurs were thriving in North America before the mass-extinction asteroid strike, study suggests

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...