Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
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Small Asteroid Impacted Earth Recently - See An Orbit Animation
Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by ...
Alert! NASA Warns Of Four Giant Asteroids Approaching Earth Tomorrow: Are We Safe?
Four giant asteroids are heading towards Earth tomorrow. Find out when they'll arrive, their speed, and how close they'll get ...
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Earth’s 2029 Close Encounter With Apophis Could Create Epic "Asteroidquakes"
Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...
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Archival Footage of D-Day
On June 6, 1944, allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France to fight Nazi Germany The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe May Never Be Solved (03:41) Ouija Board: The Mysterious ...
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Asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere and bursts over the Pacific Ocean; What happens next is surprising
The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...
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Earth Has Another Moon and It's Staying Until Thanksgiving
It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our skies ...
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NASA Alerts: Asteroid five times the height of Taj Mahal set for close encounter, several more to follow!
The first asteroid, 2024 TB2, measures about 110 feet, roughly the size of a small airplane. It will safely pass Earth at a distance of approximately 731,000 miles on October 26, 2024. Despite being ...
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A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.
The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 billion years ago was many times the size of Mount Everest. Credit: AGU Every single day about 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles fall through Earth's ...
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Asteroid the size of a 70-story skyscraper to come close to Earth
Estimated to be between 120 to 270 meters wide—roughly the size of a 70-story skyscraper—asteroid 2020 WG is considered a medium-sized Near-Earth Object (NEO). Listen to Story An asteroid impact could ...
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UAE: City-sized asteroid approaches Earth; when and how to spot it in Dubai skies
A city-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth this October and it is set to make its closest approach on October 27. Known as 1036 Ganymed, it is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids with a ...
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Bus-Sized Asteroid to Pass Between Earth and Moon Next Week
The asteroid, named (2024 UQ1), measures between 25.3 feet and 55.8 feet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), but is likely to be ...