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NASA Reveals Images Of Asteroid 16 Psyche Worth Quadrillions
16 Psyche NASA NASA has revealed images of 16 Psyche, an asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter. Its contents could be worth $10,000 quadrillion? Take a moment to digest that fact. A quadrillion is a thousand More...
NASA Warns About ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Approaching Earth
According to LADbible an asteroid larger than the Empire State Building will be flying close pass with Earth on Saturday, June 6. Although it is considered small, the space agency says the asteroid 163348 (2002 More...
Warning: NASA detects Asteroid half the size of Mount Everest fly close to Earth in April
A planet-killer asteroid, about 3-4 kilometers (over 2.5 miles long) in diameter, nearly half the size of Mount Everest, will fly past and might be on a collision course for Earth next year, on April 29, 2020, More...
The Skull-Shaped Asteroid will come back to visit us next year
The skull-shaped asteroid 2015 TB145 will make its return in November 2018, according to a release from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia in Spain. Two years ago, astronomers in Hawaii first caught More...
Asteroid Florence 2.7 miles (4.4 km) wide will fly past Earth on Sept. 1
Asteroid Florence, nearly 2.7 miles wide (4.4 kilometers) will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances). More...
NASA Prepares to Launch First U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Mission
NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as More...
Deep Space Industries partners with Luxembourg to test asteroid mining technologies
Deep Space Industries, the asteroid mining company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Luxembourg Government to co-fund the development and launch of DSI’s first spacecraft. Known as More...
Dinosaurs were already on way out before asteroid apocalypse, Study
Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has found. The findings provide a revolution More...
Large asteroid set to shoot by Earth on Halloween
A large asteroid that scientists only discovered this month will make a relatively close approach to Earth on Saturday. The asteroid, estimated to be about 1, 300 feet in diameter, will shoot past the planet More...
NASA Denies Asteroid To Strike Earth Next Month
NASA has denied viral internet claims that an asteroid will strike Earth next month wreaking widespread devastation. The space agency noted that a number of web postings are “erroneously” claiming More...