Enormous asteroid the size of Germany which would wipe out all life on earth if it hit
An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...
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Killer Asteroid Will Miss Earth But Return for a Shot at Revenge
Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...
Edelman Fossil Park & Museum’s greatest accomplishment may not be its dinosaurs
Hidden behind a strip mall and headed by a rock star paleontologist, the Edelman explores South Jersey's place in history as ...
Longview News-Journal3d
NASA lab on watch for killer asteroids
To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in may be our best hope. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a ...
Scientific American3d
A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Indian Defence Review3d
Supernova May Have Wiped Out Life on Earth Not Once, but Twice
Could supernovas have triggered ancient mass extinctions on Earth? New research explores how cosmic explosions may have ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
Woo! Science: Asteroids, satellites and a sneaky solar eclipse are what's 'up'
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists search for elusive dark matter throughout the universe
Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
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'Potentially hazardous' pyramid-size asteroid will make its closest flyby of Earth for more than 100 years this Wednesday
The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...