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NASA Rammed A Spaceship Into An Asteroid And Made A Fascinating Discovery

Deflecting asteroids by running spaceships into them may sound like science fiction, but it's quite real. And it's quite a ...

Newly discovered asteroid to fly extremely close to Earth, closer than the moon on October 15

Asteroid 2025 TP5, discovered just two days before its approach, will fly past Earth on October 15 at a dangerously close ...
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Potential asteroid impact on Moon in 2032 could trigger massive meteor shower on Earth

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...
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Asteroid 99942 Apophis won't impact Earth for at least a century, NASA finds

PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...
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NASA asteroid: Agency tracking newly discovered space rock that has 'small chance' of hitting Earth

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...
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Astronomers discover 2nd fastest asteroid in the solar system hiding in the sun's glare

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...