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NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object.
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NASA, along with the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and several other governmental agencies collaborated on this federal...
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Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to...
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It has long been believed dinosaurs had been wiped out after an asteroid struck Earth off the coast of Mexico. Now scientists have dug...
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The day chosen to mark the event, June 30, has been picked with some precision since it was on June 30, 1908 that the...
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A team of scientists, based at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, made the discovery. They suggest the massive meteor must have broken...
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The discovery of another bright light on the dwarf planet Ceres has NASA scientists perplexed as the US Dawn probe prepares to enter the...
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Here’s what NASA scientists do know: the new object is an asteroid discovered between Mars and Jupiter, with six comet-like tails of dust radiating...
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BERLIN (dpa) – It is time to stop worrying and learn to love asteroids – or at least learn to love watching for them,...