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NASA once paid a man $1,000,000,000 to stop an asteroid from crashing into Earth
UNILAD· 2 weeks agoNASA once paid a man a whopping $1 billion to stop a potentially devastating asteroid from hitting ...
NASA smashed an asteroid with a rocket. The debris could hit Mars.
National Geographic· 1 day agoIn the future, if nothing is done to stop it, an asteroid not much larger than a football stadium...
How NASA is preparing for massive asteroid that could hit Earth
Houston Chronicle· 6 days ago"The entire shape of the asteroid has changed, from a relatively symmetrical object to a 'triaxial...
A Building-Size Asteroid Flies By Earth Tonight: What To Know
Forbes· 2 weeks agoAn asteroid the size of a building will pass close by Earth later tonight, though experts say it...
'Asteroid hunter' digs deep into massive space object that's set to make close pass to Earth
ABC News via Yahoo News· 1 week agoScientists have tracked an asteroid the size of New York's Empire State Building to pass by Earth in...
NASA's asteroid blaster turned a space rock into an ‘oblong watermelon’
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 week agoDART targeted the 560-foot-wide asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger near-Earth asteroid called...
Netflix's hit sci-fi series '3 Body Problem' is based on a real math problem that is so complex it's...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 42 minutes agoYu Guming and Zine Tseng in "3 Body Problem."Maria Heras/Netflix Cracking the three-body problem...
Giant asteroid Bennu contains 'precious minerals never seen before on Earth'
The US Sun· 1 week agoA few results from Nasa's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission are finally available. The asteroid has an approximate diameter of 1,614 feet. Now scientists ...
Citizen Scientists Find Fifteen "Active Asteroids"
Universe Today· 1 week agoTake comets and asteroids, for example. Comets are icy and have tails; asteroids are rocky and don’t have tails. It displayed a comet-like dust tail at...
The Asteroid Bennu Is a Time Capsule from the Early Solar System
Sci Fi Wire· 3 days agoThe story follows Dodge (Steve Carell) and Penny (Keira Knightley), two people living through the...