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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.
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
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 ...
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A European spacecraft launches to perform a crash scene investigation on an asteroid
A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...