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NASA spots large asteroid on collision course with the Moon

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

NASA spots huge asteroid on potential crash path with the Moon — here’s what we know

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

2 Spooky Flashes Lit Up the Moon. Here’s What Made Them.

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...
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Scientists Found a 5-Mile Wide Asteroid Crater Under the Ocean Floor

A giant asteroid impact crater, sitting 300 meters beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor, has been confirmed as the result of a colossal impact from 66 million years ago. With the help of stunning data, ...

What Is The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System? Earth Defenses On Alert As 3i Atlas Comet Might 'Hit' Earth

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...
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NASA's DART: Redirecting An Asteroid To Protect Earth

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
Science Daily

Hidden 5-mile wide asteroid crater beneath the Atlantic revealed in stunning 3D

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

New evidence reveals dinosaurs were thriving right up to the moment the asteroid hit

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities.
The News International

Asteroid hit China 10,000 years ago with power of 40 atomic bombs

Researchers have confirmed the discovery of a massive asteroid strike that created a conspicuous crater in southern China’s Guangdong province approximately 10,000 years ago, during a ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

The Dinosaurs of North America Were Thriving Up Until an Asteroid Wiped Them Off the Face of the Earth, Scientists Argue

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...

Crater suggests an asteroid hit Guangdong 10,000 years ago with blast like 40 atomic bombs

Scientists discover large bowl-shaped impact crater, the fifth found in China and the first in the country’s southern region.