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Extinction asteroid caused an 18-month winter
Aug 23, 2017Scientists have revealed the immense destructiveness of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Three-mile-wide asteroid to pass by the Earth
VIDEO Aug 20, 2017The huge space rock is due to pass within a safe distance of our planet at the beginning of September.
House-sized asteroid 'will not hit Earth'
Aug 12, 2017The asteroid known as 2012 TC4 is set to pass us by at a safe distance of 27,300 miles in October.
Asteroid flyby to help test planetary defense
VIDEO Jul 31, 2017An asteroid due to pass the Earth in October is to become a target for a planetary defense exercise.
NASA to launch asteroid deflection mission
VIDEO Jul 2, 2017For the first time ever, an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense is set to be tested out.
Saturn's moon Enceladus may have tipped over
May 31, 2017Scientists have found evidence to suggest that the orientation of Enceladus is not what it used to be.
NASA to probe $10,000 quadrillion asteroid
May 25, 2017The iron-rich asteroid 16 Psyche is so valuable that, if mined, it would collapse the global economy.
Extinction asteroid hit 'worst possible place'
VIDEO May 15, 2017Scientists have been drilling in to the crater left behind by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Firm plans to build upside-down skyscraper
Mar 29, 2017The bizarre plan would see the world's tallest building being hung upside-down from an orbiting asteroid.
Asteroid narrowly avoids striking the Earth
Jan 10, 2017A previously unknown asteroid dubbed 2017 AG13 passed between the Earth and the Moon yesterday.
NASA announces two new asteroid missions
Jan 8, 2017Known as Lucy and Psyche, the new spacecraft will be studying two relics of the early solar system.
Earth 'unprepared' for killer asteroid strike
Dec 14, 2016A prominent NASA scientist has outlined just how vulnerable our planet is to threats from outer space.
Agencies carry out asteroid threat exercise
Nov 8, 2016NASA and FEMA officials got together last month to respond to a hypothetical doomsday asteroid scenario.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission launches
Sep 11, 2016The $1 billion space probe is set to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to the Earth.
Newly discovered asteroid just misses Earth
Aug 31, 2016An asteroid that was discovered only last week narrowly missed hitting the planet a few hours later.
NASA fears large asteroid could hit the Earth
Aug 1, 2016A huge space rock almost half a mile wide has the potential to hit our planet within the next 200 years.
Mystery still surrounds 1908 Tunguska event
Jul 10, 2016Did an asteroid strike the remote Siberian wilderness over a century ago or did something else happen ?
Killer asteroid almost wiped out mammals too
Jun 20, 2016The asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs almost spelled disaster for the world's mammals as well.
Can asteroids be turned in to spaceships ?
Jun 11, 2016NASA is funding a new concept that could equip small asteroids with 3D-printed propulsion systems.
Dinosaurs 'in decline' before asteroid strike
VIDEO Apr 19, 2016A new study has suggested that the dinosaurs had already been dying out long before the asteroid hit.
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