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Scientists find a five mile wide asteroid crater under the seafloor

Scientists have unveiled the Nadir crater, a 5-mile wide undersea structure off the coast of West Africa, believed to have ...

NASA spots huge asteroid on potential crash path with the Moon — here’s what we know

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...
Houston Chronicle

NASA smacked an asteroid in 2022. Now, a spacecraft is on the way for part 2.

Upon Hera's arrival at Didymos and Dimorphos—which is slated for late 2026—the mission will perform its own "crash scene investigation," measuring the asteroid's mass and shifted orbit from up close, ...
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Scientists Found a 5-Mile Wide Asteroid Crater Under the Ocean Floor

A giant asteroid impact crater, sitting 300 meters beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor, has been confirmed as the result of a ...
WTVD

DART NASA: Spacecraft successfully slams into an asteroid

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...
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A kilometer-wide asteroid will make its closest pass by Earth this week

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...
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NASA Smashed Into an Asteroid in 2022. The Debris Could End Up Reaching Earth

Rocks knocked off Dimorphos could come back to bite us in a few years—in the form of harmless meteors. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...