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What If the Largest Asteroid Hit Earth?
Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...
Scientists find evidence that entirety of Earth was once covered in ice
Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.
NASA Finally Unveils The Mysterious Electric Field Stretching Earth’s Atmosphere
The discovery was made during NASA’s Endurance mission, which launched in May 2022 from Svalbard, Norway. The mission was led by Glyn Collinson, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth at Over 29,000 mph
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
55,000 Canada Post workers go on strike across country ahead of busy holiday season
A toonie can’t buy very much these days, but it gets you one adult book — or two kids’ books — at Saturday’s fall book sale ...
As the Taurid meteor shower passes by Earth, pseudoscience rains down – and obscures a potential real threat from space
Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.
NASA Alert! India Gate-sized asteroid’s close encounter with Earth tonight: Know its time, speed and what will happen if it collided with Earth
An asteroid, the size of India Gate, will pass close to Earth today. The asteroid, named 2019 VU5, is travelling at a speed ...
Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
Asteroid strikes Earth just hours after it is detected
An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...
This Is Where ‘Shooting Stars’ Really Come From — Scientists
New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...
Giant 'God of Darkness' Asteroid May Not Escape Earth Unscathed
An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...