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Europe makes moves to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis in 2029
The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...
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Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site
The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of ...
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Urgent asteroid alert from NASA! A massive 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth at high speed today
A bus-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth on 19 October. Named 2024 TY21, the asteroid is around 40 feet wide. It will pass at a safe distance of 840,000 miles. NASA assures that there is no threat to ...
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A Close Asteroid Encounter May Have Once Given Earth a Ring
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
Researchers Link Asteroid Ice to the Emergence of Life on Earth
Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...
The Dino-Killing Asteroid: A Possible One-Two Punch
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
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Mission To Deflected Asteroid Snaps Earth-Moon Photos In First Crucial Tests
DART carried a CubeSat, LICIACube, from the Italian Space Agency, which provided the first fleeting glimpse of the collision aftermath. Very important data that will be expanded by the arrival of Hera ...
The Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Actually Been a One-Two Punch
The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic ...
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The Dinosaur Age Ended With Not One, but Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say
The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...