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Tiny asteroid buzzes by Earth - the closest flyby on record
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 19 (ANI): Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometres) above the southern Indian Ocean
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ready for touchdown on asteroid Bennu
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 21 (ANI): NASA's first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid Bennu's surface.
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Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail.
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Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 23 (ANI): A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our Solar System. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of years ago and have been orbiting our Sun in disguise ever
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Birth of 'Snowman' at edge of solar system
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Haifa [Israel], April 23 (ANI): New research by a team of astronomers shed new light on the formation of Kuiper Belt objects, asteroid-like objects at the edge of the solar system, and for understanding the early stages of the solar system's formation.
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MIT researchers develop system that identifies best way to deflect incomin
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [USA], Feb 20 (ANI): Researchers at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a system that could help identify the best type of mission for deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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Leiden astronomers discover potential near-earth objects
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 13 (ANI): Three astronomers from Leiden University (the Netherlands) have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with the Earth in the future. They did their research with the help of an artificial neural network.
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Asteroid could end life on earth after 10 million years, warn scientists
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 17 (ANI): A mile-long binary asteroid could potentially put an end to human existence if it breaks up into pieces and heads in our direction.
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Fossils indicate of global warming on Earth even before dinosaur's extinct
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 15 (ANI): Evidence collected from the Antarctic seashells by researchers have revealed the earth was stressed and unstable even before the asteroid impact that led to wiping out of dinosaurs on the planet.
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There might be Earth-like planets in the universe
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 20 (ANI): There's no denying the fact that Earth is the only habitable planet and one of its kind, but according to new evidence there may be numerous Earth-like planets in the universe!
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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft lands on asteroid, shoots a bullet into it,
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], February 22 (ANI): The Japanese spacecraft, Hayabusa 2, successfully landed on Ryugu asteroid as part of its multi-year mission of collecting samples from the surface of the asteroid.
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Earth hit by more asteroids since time of dinosaurs, say scientists
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 20 (ANI): According to a new study, the number of asteroids colliding with the Earth and Moon has increased by up to three times over the past 290 million years.
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