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NASA's DART: Redirecting An Asteroid To Protect Earth

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
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NASA spots large asteroid on collision course with the Moon

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...
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Watch How NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Flew By Asteroid Dinkinesh

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

Gaia Solves the Great Asteroid Spin Mystery

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...
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The future of asteroid mining: Missions, resources, and challenges explained

Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

Second-Fastest Asteroid Ever Detected Found ‘Hiding’ in Sun’s Glare

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...
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The Dinosaurs of North America Were Thriving Up Until an Asteroid Wiped Them Off the Face of the Earth, Scientists Argue

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...
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10,000-year-old asteroid strike in China had force of 40 atomic bombs, crater study reveals

Scientists confirm the Jinlin Crater in southern China is a 10,000-year-old asteroid impact site, revealing a blast equal to ...

Dinosaurs thrived in North America before the mass-extinction asteroid strike, new study shows

New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid strike, but it’s only one ...

Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid, study finds

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in ...

Scientists spot skyscraper-sized asteroid racing through solar system

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...
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Does Earth have 2 moons now? Here's the truth behind 'quasi moon' asteroid 2025 PN7

2025 PN7 is a small, dim asteroid that appears to orbit Earth, according to EarthSky. Believed to be a piece of the moon that blasted out, the object has been in its orbit as a quasi-moon for about 60 ...