NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids
NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
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City-killer asteroid may be hurtling towards Earth right NOW…& we have no way to detect it, space agency chiefs warn
A hole in the ice of Chebarkul Lake made by the Chelyabinsk asteroid in 2013 which went undetected by astronomersCredit: AP:Associated Press The sonic boom made by the Chelyabinsk asteroid ...
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Check Out These Rare Images of Deimos, One of Mars' Mysterious Moons
Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons, from 621 miles away while en route to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning ...
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What’s Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies and more
Math enthusiasts around the world, from college students to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day, which is March 14 or 3/14 — the first three digits of an infinite ...
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Tiniest Mars moon Deimos spotted by Europe's asteroid-chasing spacecraft
Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red Planet's tiniest moon. The European Space Agency's Hera mission was ...
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Scientists Found 52-Foot-Tall Underground Ripples From the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the ... located one mile underground—an area of rock associated with the end-Cretaceous period. Initially surveying a ...
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Karoline Leavitt shuts down AP reporter after 'insulting' question on tariffs
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sparred with an Associated Press reporter Tuesday over what she deemed an "insulting" question "trying to test [her] knowledge of economics." ...
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White House Press Secretary Spars With AP Reporter Who Challenged Her On The Impact Of Trump’s Tariffs
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday sparred with an Associated Press reporter who ...
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Tensions flare between White House press secretary and AP reporter over tariffs
Tensions between The Associated Press and the White House flared up again Tuesday when White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at an AP reporter for attempting to test her ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...