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Earth's first planetary defense

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...
The curious minds at What If explore the catastrophic impact if the largest asteroid struck Earth without warning, revealing the immediate destruction and long-term planetary consequences.
The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.
The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true ...
RPI Professor Karyn Rogers, director of the Rensselaer Astrobiology Research and Education Center, and graduate student Meri ...
The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...
Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 23Pluto reaches conjunction with the Sun at 5 A.M. EST.
Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...
Created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, "For All Mankind" first debuted on Apple TV back in 2019 and centers around the alternative history notion of what would have transpired if ...
Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.
A team led by University of Washington astronomers has discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer. The asteroid — found while analyzing data from the NSF–DOE ...