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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...
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· 7 months agoAn asteroid Bennu, a city-killer sized cosmic object, has a 1/2700 chance of hitting us in...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Year in space: Moon-to-Mars mission, asteroid sample retrieval and ‘rapid unscheduled disassemblies’...
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA helicopter long lines the capsule containing a sample collected from the Bennu asteroid as part of...