By LONNIE SHEKHTMAN AND ROB GARNER The former OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sets off on a journey to study asteroid Apophis and take advantage of the asteroid’s 2029 flyby…
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BY THE WATCHERS A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2023 CX1 impacted Earth over the English Channel between England and France, Europe at 02:59 UTC on February…
By Jim Hoft Earth’s ability to withstand an asteroid strike or comet hazard was put to the test for the first time as a NASA…
By Ben Turner A “potentially hazardous” asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Friday (Aug. 12), according to NASA(opens in…
BY NASA SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION In Depth Asteroid 99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid more than 1000 feet (over 300 meters) in size that…
By 700 Club Interactive Longtime TV and radio personality Thomas Horn shares a dream he feels was given to him by God and how…
By Tyler Durden Asteroids orbit the Sun and sometimes come close to Earth. When these space rocks come within 30 million miles of Earth, NASA…
By AARON REICH Dubbed 2021 SG, the asteroid flew close to the planet on September 16, but because it came from the direction of the Sun,…
by Mara Johnson-Groh – Live Science Contributor A giant asteroid collided with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula some 66 million years ago, as shown in…