This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Asteroid impact would drastically change the world in ways we didn't even expect, scientists say
Asteroid impact would drastically change the world in ways we didn't even expect, scientists say - World could be plunged ...
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Life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu
By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...
Astrophysicist Reveals The Key Facts About The Asteroid That May Hit Earth
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
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An Asteroid Has a 1-in-77 Chance of Hitting Earth. Here's What It Would Do
On 15 February 2013, a small asteroid (likely about 18 metres in diameter) detonated near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The explosion, about 30 kilometres above the Earth’s surface ... But there’s ...
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Scientists discover an asteroid created a pair of grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. U.S. and British scientists used photos and data ...
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Asteroid impact on moon blasted two grand canyons in 10 minutes
"When the impacting asteroid or comet hit the lunar surface, it excavated a tremendous volume of rock that was launched into space above the lunar surface before it came crashing back down.