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Earth survived an asteroid impact in 1908 that most people don’t know about
On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...
NASA warns of a massive 48-foot, house-sized asteroid moving towards Earth at high speed today
A house-sized asteroid is set to fly past Earth on 20 October. Known as 2024 SH1, the asteroid measures around 48 feet across ...
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The Dinosaur Age Ended With Not One, but Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say
Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...
Will Nasa use a nuclear bomb to blow up an asteroid and save Earth from extinction? Here's what we know
NASA has created a contingency plan to protect Earth from large asteroids, which includes the use of nuclear explosions as a ...
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Europe makes moves to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis in 2029
The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...
The Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Actually Been a One-Two Punch
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
Scientists Discover a Second Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...
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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Had an Accomplice, Study Suggests
A second impact crater from the same time period as the Chicxulub crater shows the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't ...
'Nukes ready': NASA reveals blueprint to save Earth from asteroid collision
NASA has unveiled its strategy to counter potential asteroid threats in its National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan ...
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A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock ...