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More than 100 previously undetected asteroids now under eye of powerful new tracking tool
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoIn an effort to protect Earth from asteroid impacts, a tool called ADAM uses existing archives of...
Scientists discover 'glitched' neutron star that obliterated an asteroid, then fired off a brilliant...
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA powerful magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, "glitched" when it destroyed an asteroid, causing it...
Sky Shorts: NASA's DART mission to test asteroid deflector impactor
The Repository via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBack on July 26, astronomers were surprised to discover an asteroid wider than 2 football fields...
NASA's OSIRIS mission delivered asteroid samples to Earth
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacts the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go Sample Arm Mechanism, or...
NASA scientists calculated the exact date an asteroid could hit Earth with the force of at least 24...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAn asteroid Bennu, a city-killer sized cosmic object, has a 1/2700 chance of hitting us in...
NASA launches Psyche probe on 6-year voyage to rare asteroid
CBS News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoGetting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space...
NASA just smashed a spaceship into an asteroid on purpose. Here are 13 facts about the mission and...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIllustration of DART approaching Dimorphos.NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASA crashed a spacecraft into an...
NASA's Psyche probe will launch to a metal asteroid on Oct. 12 — and scientists are sneaking a peek...
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoArtist’s concept illustration depicting the spacecraft of NASA’s Psyche mission near the mission’s...
TWO Asteroids May Have Killed Off the Dinosaurs, Scientists Say
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoA newly-discovered crater 250 miles off the coast of West Africa could have been formed by a large...
Planetary defense: NASA's arsenal for protecting Earth from potential killer asteroids
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 1 year ago--- An asteroid the size of Texas hurtles straight toward Earth, threatening to kill most living...