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Ring System Spotted Around Asteroid

- March 26, 2014

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NASA, Kerbal Space Program Want You To Stop Virtual Asteroids

- March 5, 2014

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Asteroid Passing Earth: How To See It?

- March 5, 2014

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Hubble Telescope Spots Six-Tailed Asteroid

- November 7, 2013

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NASA Reactivates WISE in Search For Deadly Asteroids

- August 22, 2013

NASA Has Now Found 10,000 Near-Earth Objects

NASA this week announced that it has now discovered more than 10,000 near-Earth objects -...

NASA Issues ‘Grand Challenge’ to Combat Killer Asteroids

NASA and astronomers around the world have been tracking asteroids for decades now. Though asteroids seem to be constantly be...

Russian Meteor Blast Explained by NASA [VIDEO]

On February 15, when the world's astronomers were busy watching Asteroid 2012 DA14 make a close flyby of Earth, a dif...

Russia Meteor Blast Being Assessed by the ESA

Last week, as astronomers around the world turned their attention toward the passing asteroid 2012 DA14, a meteorite...

Meteorite Falls in Russia, Lights Up the Sky [VIDEO]

A meteorite only a few meters long fell to Earth above Chelyabinsk, Russia early this morning. The shockwave caused by the o...

NASA: Asteroid 2012 Da14 Will Not be Hitting the Earth Today

Today at around 2:20 pm EST an asteroid named 2012 da14 will come within 17,200 miles of the surface of Earth. Almos...

Your House Will Not Be Destroyed by an Asteroid, but You Can Calculate the Odds If You Want

Did you know that every year, about one asteroid between 16 and 33 feet wide hits the Earth? And when you look at asteroids that are less that 16 feet wide, the total that hit the...

Asteroid Flyby to be Live-Streamed by NASA

On February 15, tomorrow, an asteroid named 2012 DA14 will fly within several thousand miles of the surface of the Ea...

Asteroid Worth $195B to Swing By Earth on February 15

On February 15 an asteroid named 2012 DA14 will pass very close to the Earth....

Earth-Threatening Asteroid to be Visited by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx

One week from today an asteroid will swing within just 17,200 miles of Earth - closer than geosynchronous satellites that...

Asteroid Named “Wikipedia” Officially Documented

Considering just how many asteroids there are in the asteroid belt, it can be difficult to come up with acceptable names f...

Asteroid to Give Earth a Near Miss on February 15

NASA this weekend revealed that an asteroid named 2012 DA14 will come...

Doomsday Asteroid Deflection Mission Tests Concepts

The European Space Agency (ESA) today announced that it is appealing for research ideas that could help develop a future mission...

“Doomsday” Asteroid Won’t Hit Earth in 2036

Earlier this week, astronomers with the European Space Agency (ESA) an...

Vega Asteroid Belt Suggests Multiple Planets

Astronomers this week announced that they have discovered what could be an asteroid belt around the star Vega....

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