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80 million meteors like Chelyabinsk are threat
Astronomers have identified the meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this month and say we are under...
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 set to skim past Earth
The Earth will dodge a cosmic bullet this week when a 50-meter wide asteroid skims past our planet. The...
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Fireball on Jupiter after new cosmic impact
Jupiter is exciting astronomers again after yet another impact produced a brilliant flare in its atmosphere...
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NASA crew trains for mission to asteroid
Five NASA volunteers have begun rehearsing for an expedition to an asteroid. The crew of scientists and...
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Expedition finds world’s oldest impact site
Scientific detective work has discovered the oldest known impact site in the world. The 100km (60 mile)...
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Dawn gets the lowdown on Vesta
New images from NASA’s Dawn mission are allowing scientists to peel back the layers of giant asteroid...
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Earth will dodge new asteroid in 2013
A newly-discovered asteroid that is around 50 meters wide will narrowly miss colliding with the Earth...
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Japan’s new bid to sample asteroid
Japanese space scientists are to launch a second robotic mission to grab some asteroid dirt following...
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Impact threat to Earth is still real
A new study on comet and asteroid impact craters has found that the Earth is just as likely to be struck...
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Dawn breaks for asteroid Vesta
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been captured into orbit around the asteroid Vesta to begin a year long...
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Incoming! Another asteroid to skim by
A newly discovered asteroid will miss the Earth by only 7,500 miles on Monday – coming 32 times...
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NASA probe to visit danger asteroid
NASA is to fly a mission to an asteroid that threatens Earth with an Armageddon-style impact. The $800million...
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