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Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic consequences. The Free Devort Impact in South Africa marks the largest ...
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Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.
NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...