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Massive Asteroid Could Hit the Moon, Here's How It Would Impact Earth
There's the good (Earth is no longer at risk of a direct hit from an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4); the bad (shrapnel could cause ...
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ROANE STATE PROFESSOR HAS ASTEROID NAMED IN HIS HONOR
RSCC - Ted Stryk, Roane State Associate Professor of Philosophy and English, had an asteroid named in his honor upon ...
Massive 1200-Ft Asteroid Headed For Close Encounter With Earth This Week: Time, Distance And More
NASA has alerted the public about asteroid 2003 AY2, a colossal 1,200-foot-wide rock expected to approach Earth on June 22, ...
Small Asteroid Captured Hours Prior To Earth Impact
EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary ...
NASA raises chance for asteroid to hit moon
NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.
‘Sunshine’ and ‘Event Horizon’ Bring Deep-Space Madness to Gruesome Heights
With Danny Boyle's recent comments about his never-made 'Sunshine' trilogy, we're revisiting that 2007 film as well as a ...
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This asteroid is one of the most likely to hit Earth. Here’s what it means for our future.
The new study finds that in 2135, Bennu will come within about 123,000 miles ... one viable follow-on target for OSIRIS-REx: the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, which will make a close approach ...
Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life
Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...
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NASA Plucked an Asteroid From Space. Now Researchers at the Field Will Probe It for Signs of the Origin of Life
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where ...
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What is Friday the 13th? Why is the day considered unlucky? Know the history, superstitions
There's only one Friday the 13th in 2025. That's good news for people who think it's bad luck. Why the fear? What to know ...
This asteroid won't strike Earth. Here's why NASA is still watching.
After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...
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NASA warns! 120-foot asteroid 2025 KX8 to make close approach to Earth on June 4; here’s what to expect
A small asteroid is making a close approach to Earth ... if they are at least 150 meters in diameter and come within 7.4 million kilometers of Earth. Asteroid 2025 KX8 falls short on both counts ...