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European Space Agency, Earth and asteroid

Ars Technica · 19m

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 one day prove useful to deflect an object off a collision course with 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".

Hosted on MSN · 2h

SpaceX Asteroid Mission Launches Today in Florida

The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.

Dinosaur-killing asteroid turned ants into farmers

Popular Science · 1h

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 · 52m

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

ExtremeTech on MSN · 7h

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Had an Accomplice, Study Suggests

A second impact crater from the same time period as the Chicxulub crater shows the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't working alone.

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NASA Punched an Asteroid in 2022. Another Probe Is Now on Its Way to the Wreckage

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...

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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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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 ...

Houston Chronicle11h

NASA smacked an asteroid in 2022. Now, a spacecraft is on the way for part 2.

On its way the pair of near-Earth asteroids, Hera will swing by Mars in 2025 to help propel the spacecraft forward to its ...

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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 ...

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A Year With Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Reveals Intriguing Clues to Origin of Life on Earth

A year after receiving the largest asteroid sample via NASA's OSIRIS-REx, significant findings about early life and the solar ...

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Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

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