The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

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Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind ...

NASA and international scientists closely tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a rare 3 percent collision probability with Earth. Although the threat has now diminished, the incident ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth today (May 9). Scientists say the "potentially hazardous" 950ft-wide space rock - named 612356 (2002 JX8) - will pass around 2.6 million miles away from ...

An Apollo-class asteroid, 2011 VG9, is approaching Earth at a staggering speed, set to pass on April 16th. While not classified as 'potentially hazardous' due to its distance, its size and ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped ...

The potential city-killer asteroid that could strike our ... still cause a formidable wave), which makes up nearly three-fourths of the Earth's surface. At any rate, these visions of city-wide ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu ... scientists assumed that the Earth’s atmosphere filtered out carbonaceous debris. When an object hits Earth’s atmosphere, it ...