Torres: News of asteroid heading our way has me looking for shelter
Torres: 3.1 percent is not high but it is the highest risk level of a space rock crashing into us, ever. Except for the one ...
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US: Hawaii’s Kilauea Erupts For Its 10th Time Since Last December
Hawaii’s Kilauea erupted for the 10th time since it burst to life on December 23, on Wednesday, February 19. The eruption occurred at the volcano’s summit crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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Why The Dinosaurs Died | The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact
One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...
Grand Canyons on the Moon Were Made in a Matter of Minutes
Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...
How an asteroid caused an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima
Some calculations say the explosion was 185 to 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that razed Hiroshima. Despite ...
NASA spotted a big asteroid that may hit Earth — what you should know
It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...
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Bennu isn’t likely to hit Earth — but if it did, here’s what would happen
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...
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Gambling with the odds of destruction
Can America survive this meteor shower? Maybe — if we stay focused, get organized, show up, support good candidates, write ...
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NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end
The best example may be a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid that crashed into Earth, killed the dinosaurs and created Chicxulub crater about 65 million years ago. The NEOWISE mission started ...
An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, NASA says. Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
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5 times asteroids struck the Earth's surface in recent history
Key events include the Tunguska Event, the Chelyabinsk Event, the Barringer Crater, the Chesapeake Bay ... and extinction of species like the dinosaurs.