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A car-sized asteroid flew close to Earth and scientists had no idea
Nasa knows about only a fraction ... This recent near-Earth asteroid was initially called ZTF0DxQ but is now formally known to astronomers as 2020 QG. Business Insider first learned about it ...
Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids
NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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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
A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a pyramid will skim past Earth tomorrow, NASA has revealed. The asteroid, called 2014 TN17, is expected to come as close as 0.03404 astronomical ...
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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 ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
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NASA’s $1.4 billion asteroid tracker to hunt ‘city-killer’ space rocks to save Earth from apocalypse
Scientists can halt catastrophes with early warnings. The capacity to change asteroid trajectories was proven by NASA's DART mission in 2022. The orbit of a spacecraft was changed when it ...
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NASA Alerts: A massive 540-foot asteroid coming very close to Earth Today – Should we worry?
That asteroid leveled 2,000 square kilometers of trees and was as large as half of 2014 TN17. If the same thing happened now over a large city, it would be unthinkable. The NASA Center for Near ...