Asteroid

New chinchilla-like mammal discovered in Colorado provides new clues about how life bounced back after asteroid wiped out dinosaurs

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com 19:04 13 May 2024, updated 19:44 13 May 2024 Thousand of fossils uncovered in Colorado have provided ...

Huge asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth at 56,000mph today, NASA warns

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The asteroid 2024 JZ will pass Earth today within just 0.028 astronomical units Experts insist that this is perfectly safe and that 2024 ...

AI Finds Nearly 30,000 Unknown Asteroids in Existing Telescope Photos

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Each green dot in this image is one of the asteroids that data scientists located with their new AI algorithm. The asteroids ...

Fastest-spinning asteroid recently hit Earth’s atmosphere and crashed in Berlin

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Scientists have found that an asteroid which crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning at the highest rate ever known, ...

Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Angled view of the Giordano Bruno, Lunar crater, 2016. The height and sharpness of the rim are … [+] evident, as well ...

NASA’s ‘Armageddon’ mission backfires! DART asteroid deflection test created a cloud of giant boulders that are set to crash into Mars

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The craft rammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, creating 37 new space boulders  This new cloud of boulders will cross Mars’s orbit multiple ...

A Building-Size Asteroid Flies By Earth Tonight: What To Know

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Topline An asteroid the size of a building will pass close by Earth later tonight, though experts say it doesn’t pose any ...

An asteroid the size of a BUS will skim past Earth today

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

An asteroid the size of a bus will skim past Earth today – but experts have reassured that there is no cause ...

How NASA Surpassed Expectations With Asteroid Bennu

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu. The dust and rocks were poured into the trays ...

Asteroid Impact Near Berlin Reveals Rare Aubrite Treasures

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, photographed at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Laura Kranich, a Freie Universität MSc student and ...