The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.
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Nuking asteroids that threaten life on Earth may make them stronger, experiment at CERN suggests
A team studying asteroids using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) proton beam has found a few complications with the idea ...
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Near-Earth asteroids caught on radar: How telescopes spot cosmic threats
Astronomers are constantly tracking “potentially hazardous” objects in space, using advanced telescopes capable of detecting ...
The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...
My friend Larry Lebofsky has been studying asteroids since we first met as students, more than 50 years ago. Now approaching 80 years old, he still spends a ...
Installation of an experiment testing asteroid material at CERN's HiRadMat facility. (Photo: Karl-Georg Schlesinger) Millions of asteroids orbit ...
This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...
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