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Could a nuclear missile be used to save the Earth from a killer asteroid?
Dec 23, 2023Scientists have developed a new modeling tool to help simulate the effects of a nuclear device on a large asteroid.
NASA launches mission to visit a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid
Oct 15, 2023The space agency's Psyche spacecraft will be the first ever to attempt to directly visit a metal asteroid.
Building blocks of life found in OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample
Oct 13, 2023An initial analysis of the sample collected from the asteroid Bennu has yielded some promising results.
Biblical city was destroyed by an asteroid, evidence suggests
Sep 30, 2023New excavations in Jordan have revealed evidence to suggest that the city of Sodom was destroyed by an asteroid impact.
NASA's Osiris-Rex capsule returns to Earth with asteroid samples
Sep 26, 2023The spacecraft touched down in the Utah desert after a seven-year journey to and from the asteroid Bennu.
Odds of 'killer' asteroid impact in next 1,000 years are 'very low'
May 20, 2023A reassuring new study has found that we may be safe from extinction asteroid impacts... at least for the time being.
Asteroid Ryugu found to contain one of the building blocks of life
Mar 28, 2023Scientists in Japan have found new evidence to suggest that the building blocks of life arrived on Earth from space.
Elephant-sized asteroid passes Earth in extraordinary 'near-miss'
Jan 29, 2023The space rock passed us by at a distance of 2,200 miles - a fraction of the distance at which some satellites orbit the Earth.
NASA confirms success of DART probe planetary defense test
Oct 14, 2022The space agency has confirmed that its recent mission successfully altered the trajectory of the target asteroid.
Largest ever asteroid impact dwarfed that which killed the dinosaurs
Oct 8, 2022The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was enormous - but it was by no means the largest ever to hit our planet.
NASA successfully smashes space probe into an asteroid
VIDEO Sep 27, 2022The camera feed from the probe showed its last moments as it careened into the asteroid Dimorphos.
Scientists find evidence of a second dinosaur-killing asteroid
Aug 27, 2022It looks as though it might not have been one asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs, but two.
Well preserved dinosaur leg may be from the actual day of the asteroid strike
Apr 15, 2022Palaeontologists believe that they may have found one of the victims of the extinction event that ended the dinosaurs.
Shards of dinosaur-killing asteroid found preserved in amber
Apr 9, 2022Palaeontologists have discovered fragments of the asteroid that brought about the demise of the dinosaurs.
Probe to smash into an asteroid at 15,000mph
Oct 7, 2021NASA has announced more details of an upcoming mission that will attempt to redirect an asteroid.
NASA reveals revised risk of Bennu collision
Aug 12, 2021At a news conference yesterday, the space agency revealed how likely it is that the asteroid will hit us.
'Complex organic matter' found on asteroids
Aug 3, 2021Scientists have identified two unusual asteroids between Mars and Jupiter that shouldn't actually be there.
Osiris-Rex heads for home with Bennu samples
May 11, 2021NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft is now on its way back to Earth with samples collected from the asteroid Bennu.
NASA pretends to hit Earth with a large asteroid
VIDEO May 2, 2021A planetary defense exercise at the weekend ended up 'destroying' an area of Europe around 100km wide.
Dino-killing asteroid also created the Amazon
Apr 5, 2021A new study has shown that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also gave birth to the Amazon rainforest.
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