Scientists Found 10 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Massive Kilonova in the Bottom of the Ocean
Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...
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The Biggest Space Rock Ever Found in Antarctica Contains the Oldest Secret of the Solar System
Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...
Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
Four planets found orbiting a star 6 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
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This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
But sometimes a space rock gets flagged as a potential ... just two days after its closest approach to Earth. “The object was found when it passed by Earth and started getting away from it ...
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4 tiny, Earth-like planets found circling 2nd-closest star system to us — and could be visited by future human generations
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
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Killer space rocks
When a new object is found, information is shared with a global web of space ... Earth—including the dinosaurs. But some experts believe the impact would have been far less calamitous if the ...
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Will an asteroid hit Earth? Likely not. NASA gives 'all clear' as odds fall to near zero
The space rock between 130 and 300 feet long ... a scare in 2004 when calculations initially found that it had a decent chance of striking Earth in 2029. YR4's probability of impacting Earth ...
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The riskiest asteroid on record now has near-zero chance of hitting Earth
NASA estimates that the space rock has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth in December 2032 ... of the asteroid’s trajectory and now have found there is no significant potential for this asteroid ...
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Earth’s Oldest Meteorite Crater Dating Back 3.47 Billion Years Found in Australia’s outback
The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.
Killer space rocks
A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.