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Japan Reveals The First Image Оf Alien Samples Recovered From Distant Asteroid
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December 15, 2020
Japan Reveals The First Image Оf Alien Samples Recovered From Distant Asteroid
The team of the Japanese space mission “Hayabusa2”, which performed a two-way flight from Earth to asteroid Ryugu between 2014…
Will Asteroid Apophis Collide With Earth in the Near Future? Here’s What we Know
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November 14, 2020
Will Asteroid Apophis Collide With Earth in the Near Future? Here’s What we Know
Not a week goes by without another prophecy about the end of the world or news confirming the approach of…
NASA Spacecraft Gathers Enough Surface Material From Asteroid 320 Million Km Away
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October 24, 2020
NASA Spacecraft Gathers Enough Surface Material From Asteroid 320 Million Km Away
NASA has recently managed to successfully land—for a few seconds—a spacecraft on the surface of an asteroid some 320 million…
Here’s the Video of a NASA Spacecraft Landing on an Asteroid 320 Million Km Away
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October 22, 2020
Here’s the Video of a NASA Spacecraft Landing on an Asteroid 320 Million Km Away
The OSIRIS-REx mission has proven once again that when humankind sets out to do something and works hard towards that…
NASA Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Asteroid 324 Million Km Away Gathering Soil Samples
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October 21, 2020
NASA Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Asteroid 324 Million Km Away Gathering Soil Samples
NASA has achieved yet another fascinating historical milestone as the OSIRIS-REx mission managed to successfully land on the surface of…
A NASA Spacecraft Is About To Land on an Asteroid 334 Million Kilometers From Earth
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October 19, 2020
A NASA Spacecraft Is About To Land on an Asteroid 334 Million Kilometers From Earth
The countdown has begun for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to land on asteroid Bennu, a massive space rock zooming through the…
Asteroid That Probably Caused the Tunguska 1908 Explosion Could Still Orbit the Sun
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May 20, 2020
Asteroid That Probably Caused the Tunguska 1908 Explosion Could Still Orbit the Sun
New research attributes the absence of debris from the asteroid that may have caused the large 1908 explosion over Tunguska…
Video: Spacecraft Lands on Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away
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May 9, 2020
Video: Spacecraft Lands on Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away
An asteroid measuring approximately one kilometer in diameter called Ryugu (officially designated 162173 Ryugu) was visited by a spacecraft from…
A Bus-Sized Asteroid No One Saw Coming Got Too Close For Comfort
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May 6, 2020
A Bus-Sized Asteroid No One Saw Coming Got Too Close For Comfort
No one saw the bus-sized asteroid (2020 JJ) coming until it flew just past us, some 4,350 miles (7,000 kilometers)…
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid To Safely Pass Earth on Wednesday
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April 28, 2020
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid To Safely Pass Earth on Wednesday
An asteroid that appears to be wearing a protective mask as it travels across the solar system is set to…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Takes Close-Up Video Of Asteroid Bennu 100 Million Kilometers Away
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April 17, 2020
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Takes Close-Up Video Of Asteroid Bennu 100 Million Kilometers Away
NASA has released images (vide) of its first flyby test of the sample collection event on asteroid Bennu, an asteroid…
A 4-Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Will Zoom Past Earth in April 2020
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March 31, 2020
A 4-Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Will Zoom Past Earth in April 2020
There’s a massive asteroid heading our way, and it will get here in April 2020. Luckily for us, the asteroid…
An Asteroid the Size of a Football Field Flew Dangerously Close To Earth 4 Days After Being Found
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March 25, 2020
An Asteroid the Size of a Football Field Flew Dangerously Close To Earth 4 Days After Being Found
An asteroid the size of a football field flew past Earth on March 23 – four days after its detection…
Japan Bombed An Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away, Here’s What They Found
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March 20, 2020
Japan Bombed An Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away, Here’s What They Found
The Japanese national Space Agency (JAXA) made its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft—in orbit around Ryugu—bomb the asteroid orbiting the sun at around…
One of the Brightest and Largest Potentially Hazardous Asteroids to Pass Safely Past Earth
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March 5, 2020
One of the Brightest and Largest Potentially Hazardous Asteroids to Pass Safely Past Earth
No, the asteroid will not impact Earth and presents no direct threat to mankind. The asteroid which is believed to…
An Asteroid That Recently Zipped Past Earth Was Accompanied by a Strange “Satellite”
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February 12, 2020
An Asteroid That Recently Zipped Past Earth Was Accompanied by a Strange “Satellite”
Last week, an asteroid known as 2020 BX12 zipped past Earth. As it made its way past Earth—at a safe…
Global Reset 12,800 Years Ago: Scientists Find Evidence of Mass Extinction by Asteroid
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October 3, 2019
Global Reset 12,800 Years Ago: Scientists Find Evidence of Mass Extinction by Asteroid
Some 12,8000 years ago, when relatively developed ancient cultures already populated the Earth, our planet went through a kind of…
7 Amazing Surface Close-Up Images of Asteroid Located 300 Million km Away
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August 28, 2019
7 Amazing Surface Close-Up Images of Asteroid Located 300 Million km Away
Asteroid Ryugu, formally identified as 162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo Group. The…
Here’s are 4 Stunning Close-Up Image of an Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away
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August 25, 2019
Here’s are 4 Stunning Close-Up Image of an Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away
Update; December 21, 2020. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft has delivered asteroid surface samples back to Earth. The spacecraft is currently en-route…
A Weird Asteroid With its Own Moon is Heading Towards Earth
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May 24, 2019
A Weird Asteroid With its Own Moon is Heading Towards Earth
There’s a weird asteroid that has its very own moon heading towards Earth. Classified as a “potentially hazardous asteroid” the…
This is What it Would Look Like if the Biggest Asteroid in the Solar System Collided With Earth
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May 13, 2019
This is What it Would Look Like if the Biggest Asteroid in the Solar System Collided With Earth
Earth is thought to have been born as a result of repeated asteroid collisions, and Earth’s faithful satellite the moon…
Scientists Warn ‘God of Chaos’ Asteroid, Bigger Than Eiffel Tower Will ‘Narrowly Miss’ Earth in 2029
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May 2, 2019
Scientists Warn ‘God of Chaos’ Asteroid, Bigger Than Eiffel Tower Will ‘Narrowly Miss’ Earth in 2029
The massive asteroid dubbed 99942 Apophis will pass unnervingly close to the planet in 2029. In fact, astronomers say that…