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NASA's 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth's atmosphere
NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth ...
Asteroid Apophis Will Endure Quakes and Surface Shifts During 2029 Earth Flyby
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
Apophis: A new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that's set to brush by Earth
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...
Five Asteroids Will Zoom Past Earth on Thursday
No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away.
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‘God of chaos’ asteroid predicted to tumble, shed rocks during Earth flyby
According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...
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Multiple Dangerous Asteroids Approaching Earth All At The Same Time
Several asteroids will pass by Earth in the next few days, some of them getting shockingly close in astronomical terms. … ...
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4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span today (Oct. 24)
Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches ...
NASA warns 2 airplane-size asteroids to zoom past Earth in a close shave on November 5
Two airplane-sized asteroids are set to make a close approach to Earth on November 5, 2024. Read below to know their details.
4 large asteroids, including 1 the size of a skyscraper, speed past Earth
Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...
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Earth's second moon, a mini-moon, will drift away in a few days and never return
On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.
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Six Asteroids — One Considered Potentially Hazardous — Flew Past Earth In Less Than 24 Hours
When asteroids come within 4,600,000 miles of Earth (like the aforementioned three), they have some components of being qualified as potentially hazardous objects. What saved them from gaining full ...
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Asteroids will swing close to Earth in a drive-by show
The heavens will be busy tonight and tomorrow. NASA is expecting several interplanetary visitors to Earth's outer space neighborhood. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies is keeping a close eye on ...