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Capturing an asteroid with a diameter of 7 meters and a weight of 500 tons. Credit: Rick Sternbach / KISS

NASA is exploring the possibility of giving the moon its own moon

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The asteroid 2012-DA14. Image: NASA

On February 15, an asteroid with a diameter of 50 meters will pass very close to the Earth, but there is no danger of a crash

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The vortex of the black hole. Image: NASA

Towards the end of the world: ten reasons why the end of the world will come someday, or not but not in the near term

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A model of the Arcade 100 space telescope that is being developed by the Planetary Resources company to locate asteroids with potential for mining minerals. From Wikipedia

The pot of gold at the end of the arch

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A proposal to launch a spacecraft to repel the asteroid Apophis

Russia wants to build a missile that will destroy asteroids that threaten Earth

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Artist's rendering of a near-Earth asteroid. Illustration: ESA - P.Carril

An asteroid will pass on the night between Sunday and Monday behind the orbit of the moon: link to a live broadcast of the transit

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An artist's illustration of what a large meteorite hitting the sea might look like in the first second of impact. We do not know if the area affected 3 billion years ago was covered by water or if the sea was nearby. Credit: Carsten Egestal Thuesen, GEUS

The oldest crater on Earth was discovered in Greenland

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Radar images of asteroid 1999 RQ36. Photo: NASA / GSFC / UA

NASA wants your help in finding asteroids

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Simulation of the impact of a giant asteroid with a diameter of 10 kilometers on the Earth. Image: NASA

Researchers at Los Alamos Laboratories: We've been able to figure out how to blow up an asteroid that threatens Earth

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Artist's rendering of a near-Earth asteroid. Illustration: ESA - P.Carril

A large asteroid may hit the Earth in 2040, monitoring for at least a year is required to determine exactly the chances

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The number of medium-sized near-Earth asteroids is lower than previously thought. This is according to the NEOWISE sky scan data. Image: NASA

Fewer near-Earth objects, but still enough to endanger

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The asteroid 2005 YU55 with a diameter of about 400 meters will approach tonight to a distance slightly less than the lunar orbit. No danger is expected, not even an indirect effect.

NASA photographed the asteroid passing by the Earth today at a safe distance

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Asteroid Itokawa as photographed by the Japanese spacecraft Yabusa. From Wikipedia

To asteroid Itokawa and back

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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Image: NASA

NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and return soil samples from it

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Astronomers discover that a recently discovered asteroid is Earth's companion

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The asteroid 2011 CQ1. Photography: Giovanni Sostro and Ernesto Guido

A small asteroid passed very close to Earth on February 4th

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The Manicouagan impact crater in Canada. Photo: NASA

Before the asteroid catches us with our pants down

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The orbits of two asteroids passing by the Earth, September 8, 2010. Image: Universe Today

Two asteroids will pass by the Earth today at one in the afternoon and one at midnight. There is no fear of a collision

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Artist's illustration of a double asteroid. Image: ESO, European Southern Observatory, European Space Agency.

Astronomers from Tel Aviv University reveal the origin of "separated pairs of asteroids"

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The impact crater in southern Egypt, from Google Earth

A perfect impact crater was discovered in the desert in Egypt

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WISE space telescope. Image: NASA

Asteroids lurk in the dark

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The osiris-rex spacecraft lands on near-Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36

Scientists propose to launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid and return soil samples from it

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Pictured from top to bottom (not to scale) are the Moon, Venus and an asteroid. These three bodies are prime candidates for NASA's next scientific space mission. The proposed missions are: monitoring Venus' atmosphere and crust, returning samples from a near-Earth asteroid for analysis, or dropping a robotic vehicle into the Moon's south polar basin and returning rock samples from there for examination and analysis on Earth .

NASA has selected three finalists for scientific missions, one of which will be carried out: to Venus, an asteroid or the moon

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Russia may launch a spacecraft to intercept the Apophis asteroid

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A 10 meter diameter asteroid exploded violently over Indonesia

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