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NASA begins construction on NEO Surveyor, a next-gen asteroid hunter
SYFY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThere are more than 1.1 million known asteroids in the solar system. Most of them are in the...
The asteroid NASA is about to strike poses no threat to Earth, but 60% of city-killer rocks fly...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIllustration of DART approaching Dimorphos.NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASA is about to slam a spacecraft...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab laying off 8% of its workforce
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoBudgetary issues have forced the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's chief center for robotic...
Adam Driver asked NASA how it plans to save Earth from world-ending asteroids
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAdam Driver arrives at the UK Premiere of the film 'House of Gucci' at Leicester Square in London,...
NASA rethinks plan to return rare Mars samples to Earth
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDue to budget constraints, NASA is rethinking the architecture of the Mars Sample Return program,...
NASA tracked a stadium-size asteroid that passed by Earth but was not a threat: See a video
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAn asteroid the size of a football stadium capable of leveling an entire city hurtled by Earth on...
Asteroid to zip past Earth on Thursday. Here’s how to watch
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSPACE (KXAN) – Earth will have a close encounter with a small asteroid Thursday. Named 2023 BU, the...
'Planet killer' asteroid hidden by the sun may threaten Earth in a few thousand years
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTelescopes in the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a program of NSF’s...
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a plan that could one day save Earth from...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Double Asteroid Redirection Test is the first planetary defense experiment ever attempted....
Earth is safe from a devastating asteroid impact for 1,000 years (probably)
Space via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAn artist's illustration of asteroids headed toward Earth. Astronomers have completed a...