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There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in less than eight years....
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An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday —...
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Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of...
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A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise...
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The black particles from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres away look unremarkable, like pieces of charcoal, but they hold a component of life...
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NASA's DART mission to test deflecting an asteroid using "kinetic impact" with a spaceship.
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NASA will on Monday attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit,...
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Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said.
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Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu was brought back to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body.
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NASA is preparing to launch a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid.