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NASA tracks massive asteroid on course that could strike the US

NASA planetary defense scientists are tracking a large potentially hazardous asteroid whose projected trajectory includes a ...
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Asteroids that could strike Earth

Asteroids are rocky leftovers from the early formation of our planetary neighborhood. And of the over one million that we ...
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Lunar asteroid strike in 2032 could trigger moonquakes and meteor storms on Earth

Late in 2024, astronomers spotted a new near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4. By mid-2025, its improved orbit tracking raised an unusual possibility: the space rock could hit the Moon on Dec. 22, ...

The countdown is on until the Apophis asteroid whizzes by Earth

Scientists gear up to explain significance of event while preventing public panic over unfounded fears of an asteroid strike ...

Dante’s Inferno May Secretly Be About a Planet-Destroying Asteroid Strike

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...

What would it have been like to witness the asteroid that killed all dinosaurs?

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...