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NASA tracking asteroid twice as big as Statue of Liberty as it heads for close call with Earth today
The huge 85m-wide rock, dubbed 2025 MA90, will pass within 6 million km of Earth today, July 15, and will be closely ...
Asteroid three times the size of Big Ben to fly close to earth today
Scientists are looking to the skies today as a huge asteroid is set to skim past Earth at more than 20,000mph as NASA track ...
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Could asteroid mining actually work? Maybe if we start with impact sites on the moon
"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...
Mystery space rock blazing through solar system ‘may be oldest comet ever seen’ – and there’s a chance you can spot it
AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...
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What is space and what’s floating about in it?
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
Our solar system has a new mysterious visitor—what is it?
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
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NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...