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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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 ...
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Grand Canyons on the Moon Were Made in a Matter of Minutes
Two remarkable canyons, located near the Moon's south pole, challenge the Grand Canyon in both depth and length. These lunar formations, known ...
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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 ...
A desperate, futile dash under a flaming sky: Min-by-min breakdown of what would happen if looming asteroid hit London
IT starts with a glimmer in the sky – just a pinprick of light, barely distinguishable from the stars. But this is no distant celestial body – this is a massive 2,560-foot-wide ...
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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 ...
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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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 ...
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‘City killer’ asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: Nasa
This is not the dinosaur killer. This is not the planet ... than 500 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. But an impact crater cannot be ruled out if the size is closer to the higher end of ...