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Rare 6-Ton Daytime Fireball Seen Soaring Over The US May Have Dropped Meteorites In Ohioartist impression of a fireball, a rock covered in flames up in the atmosphere

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Rare 6-Ton Daytime Fireball Seen Soaring Over The US May Have Dropped Meteorites In Ohioartist impression of a fireball, a rock covered in flames up in the atmosphere
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Rare 6-Ton Daytime Fireball Seen Soaring Over The US May Have Dropped Meteorites In Ohio

clock-iconMarch 18, 2026

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Meteor Showers On Venus Might Be Caused By The Two Fastest Known Asteroidsartist impression of asteroids smashing into each other

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Meteor Showers On Venus Might Be Caused By The Two Fastest Known Asteroidsartist impression of asteroids smashing into each other
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Meteor Showers On Venus Might Be Caused By The Two Fastest Known Asteroids

clock-iconJanuary 26, 2026
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Something Just Crashed Into The Moon – And Astronomers Captured The Whole EventThousands of impact craters scar the surface of the moon.

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Something Just Crashed Into The Moon – And Astronomers Captured The Whole EventThousands of impact craters scar the surface of the moon.
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Something Just Crashed Into The Moon – And Astronomers Captured The Whole Event

clock-iconDecember 18, 2025
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433 Eros: First Near-Earth Asteroid Ever Discovered Will Fly By Earth Today – And You Can Watch It433 Eros, a near-earth asteroid imaged by NASA

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433 Eros: First Near-Earth Asteroid Ever Discovered Will Fly By Earth Today – And You Can Watch It433 Eros, a near-earth asteroid imaged by NASA
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433 Eros: First Near-Earth Asteroid Ever Discovered Will Fly By Earth Today – And You Can Watch It

clock-iconNovember 28, 2025
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Once-In-A-Decade Close Encounter With Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 ApproachesAsteroid 2025 FA22 on its close approach in September 2025.

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Once-In-A-Decade Close Encounter With Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 ApproachesAsteroid 2025 FA22 on its close approach in September 2025.
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Once-In-A-Decade Close Encounter With Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 Approaches

clock-iconSeptember 10, 2025
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Watch As Stadium-Sized Asteroid, Largest Of 5, Flies By EarthA single clear dot is in the middle of the image with an arrow pointing at it. Stars are seen trailing around.

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Watch As Stadium-Sized Asteroid, Largest Of 5, Flies By EarthA single clear dot is in the middle of the image with an arrow pointing at it. Stars are seen trailing around.
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Watch As Stadium-Sized Asteroid, Largest Of 5, Flies By Earth

clock-iconMay 9, 2025
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Scientists May Finally Have Answered Why The Most Important Meteorites Are So Rare194 fireballs captured from Desert Fireball Network observatory in Hyden (Western Australia), 2016-2020, made up part of the database of objects hitting the atmosphere whose angles allowed us to calculate their orbits.

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Scientists May Finally Have Answered Why The Most Important Meteorites Are So Rare194 fireballs captured from Desert Fireball Network observatory in Hyden (Western Australia), 2016-2020, made up part of the database of objects hitting the atmosphere whose angles allowed us to calculate their orbits.
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Scientists May Finally Have Answered Why The Most Important Meteorites Are So Rare

clock-iconApril 14, 2025
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Global Planetary Defense Protocols Now Active Following “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid Discoverya grey lumpy rock is seen over a dark sky.

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Global Planetary Defense Protocols Now Active Following “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid Discoverya grey lumpy rock is seen over a dark sky.
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Global Planetary Defense Protocols Now Active Following “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid Discovery

clock-iconJanuary 31, 2025
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9-Kilometer Impact Crater Beneath Atlantic Reveals Dino-Killing Asteroid Had A FriendFiery asteroid smashing into Earth

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9-Kilometer Impact Crater Beneath Atlantic Reveals Dino-Killing Asteroid Had A FriendFiery asteroid smashing into Earth
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9-Kilometer Impact Crater Beneath Atlantic Reveals Dino-Killing Asteroid Had A Friend

clock-iconOctober 4, 2024
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466 Million Years Ago, Earth Potentially Had A Ring System That Impacted Its ClimateMockup image of Earth with rings

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466 Million Years Ago, Earth Potentially Had A Ring System That Impacted Its ClimateMockup image of Earth with rings
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466 Million Years Ago, Earth Potentially Had A Ring System That Impacted Its Climate

clock-iconSeptember 17, 2024
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Asteroid 2024 PT5 Is Set To Be A Mini-Moon Of Earth – But Just For Two Monthsa 3-D RENDERING OF AN ASTEROID IN SPACE APPROACHING EARTH

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Asteroid 2024 PT5 Is Set To Be A Mini-Moon Of Earth – But Just For Two Monthsa 3-D RENDERING OF AN ASTEROID IN SPACE APPROACHING EARTH
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Asteroid 2024 PT5 Is Set To Be A Mini-Moon Of Earth – But Just For Two Months

clock-iconSeptember 13, 2024
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"Planet-Killer" Asteroid To Safely Fly By Earth TomorrowA3D rendering oa a rock in space with the Earth in the background

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"Planet-Killer" Asteroid To Safely Fly By Earth TomorrowA3D rendering oa a rock in space with the Earth in the background
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"Planet-Killer" Asteroid To Safely Fly By Earth Tomorrow

clock-iconJune 26, 2024
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Exclusive: We Have Collected The First-Ever Actual Pebbles From An AsteroidA top-down view of a ring of eight wedge-shaped steel containers. Black rocks and dust populate the containers, with the largest amounts in the wedges at the top of the photograph. Stainless steel tools such as tweezers and small scoops are resting on trays on either side of the ring of containers.

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Exclusive: We Have Collected The First-Ever Actual Pebbles From An AsteroidA top-down view of a ring of eight wedge-shaped steel containers. Black rocks and dust populate the containers, with the largest amounts in the wedges at the top of the photograph. Stainless steel tools such as tweezers and small scoops are resting on trays on either side of the ring of containers.
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Exclusive: We Have Collected The First-Ever Actual Pebbles From An Asteroid

clock-iconMarch 1, 2024
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NASA Hit An Asteroid So Hard It Completely Changed Its ShapeAsteroid Didymos (bottom left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos in the distancve. Didymos has smooth regions and regions with boulders

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NASA Hit An Asteroid So Hard It Completely Changed Its ShapeAsteroid Didymos (bottom left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos in the distancve. Didymos has smooth regions and regions with boulders
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NASA Hit An Asteroid So Hard It Completely Changed Its Shape

clock-iconFebruary 26, 2024
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The Most Dangerous Asteroid That Never Wasartist impression of asteroid about to hit Earth

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The Most Dangerous Asteroid That Never Wasartist impression of asteroid about to hit Earth
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The Most Dangerous Asteroid That Never Was

clock-iconJanuary 6, 2024
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