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Asteroid on Collision Course with Earth Could Smash into the Moon Instead
The asteroid space scientists feared would hit Earth may now smash into the Moon instead. Space rock 2024 YR4 was originally ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Next raises profit outlook after hitting 1 billion pound milestone
British clothing retailer Next on Thursday reported a 10.1% rise in annual profit, making in excess of a billion pounds for the first time, and raised its guidance for sales and profit growth in its ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists search for elusive dark matter throughout the universe
Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
NASA warns 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza will make its closest approach to Earth for more than 100 YEARS tomorrow
TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
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5 Asteroids That Pose Greatest Threat To Earth As Per NASA List Including Asteroid Bennu
Asteroid Bennu: Its size is 500 mtr and it may be 4.5 bn years old. It may hit earth on Sept. 24, 2182. 4. Asteroid 2007 FT3: Its size is around 337 metres. It has an extremely low chance (1 in 11 mn ...
Spinning through space: The astronomers watching the skies for asteroids
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...
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Asteroids near Earth: are we in danger?
Bennu and 1950 DA are two asteroids that are often believed to hit Earth within the next hundred years. Let’s see: Asteroid 1950 DA was discovered in 1950. It has a size of 0.68 miles (1.1 ...
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Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA ... obtained samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu. In addition to confirming that S-type asteroids are the source of the most common ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling ... been analysing clumps of rock from Bennu since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023. They quickly found these ...