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Earth survived an asteroid impact in 1908 that most people don’t know about
On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...
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Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site
The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...
Ryugu Surprises Scientists Again: New Clues Reveal Asteroid’s Birth Near Jupiter
Samples from asteroid Ryugu have once again surprised scientists, challenging previous ideas about how carbon-rich asteroids ...
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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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An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs — But it invented something amazing for ants
Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...
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“An asteroid will appear…the celestial body of the Warning”
There has been much confusion in regard to recent prophecies on a Third World War. There has been warning that it would occur if not enough conversion of mankin ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs?
The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...
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.