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Asteroid 2008 OS7's last approach to Earth on the day before Asteroid 2008 OS7 passes near Earth on February 2, 2024. This series of images was taken by the powerful 230-foot (70-meter) Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna near Barstow, California Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Unexpected Discoveries: NASA Planetary Radar Images Reveal Asteroid As It Approaches Earth

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During asteroid 2008 OS7's final approach to Earth on February 2, 2024, the agency's Deep Space Radar collected the first detailed images of the stadium-sized asteroid
Doomsday of the dinosaurs. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Last Spring of the Dinosaurs: Groundbreaking Study Pinpoints the Season of the Chicxulub Asteroid Collision

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Groundbreaking research confirms the time of year when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and 75% of life on Earth
From the artist's illustration above, you can get an impression of how nearby objects will look to the NEO Surveyor. Their faint heat signatures will appear as a band of dots that appear in red in this image, for our convenience. That way they will look different from the stars in the background, which are painted blue in the picture. Hunting for near-infrared objects will also allow scientists to determine not only the location and orbit of the objects but also their size. And it is the size that determines the extent of their destruction if they hit the Earth. Image: NASA

NASA approves NEO Surveyor, a space telescope that will scan the sky for dangerous asteroids

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The spacecraft will conduct its survey in infrared. Telescopes on Earth have found most of the nearby objects cataloged so far, but the remaining ones are very difficult to find in visible light
The asteroid Apophis passes by the Earth. Illustration: shutterstock

An asteroid will pass on March 21; In 2020, a record of the discovery of near-Earth objects was recorded

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However, no danger is expected from this asteroid - on March 6, astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts watched the transit of the asteroid Apophis, which will return much closer to us in 2029
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is poised to touch down on the surface of asteroid Ben. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

The Osiris Rex spacecraft successfully touched down on asteroid Benu in an attempt to obtain a sample

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In the coming week, the engineers and scientists of the mission will try to estimate the size of the collected sample, and if it is smaller than the target of 60 grams, another contact attempt will be made in January
Schematic illustration of the DART mission showing the lunar impact of the asteroid (65803) Didymus. Observations after the collision from optical telescopes on Earth and a planetary radar will measure the change in the Moon's orbit around the main body. Figure: NASA

NASA will launch the DART spacecraft that will reach a double asteroid and try to divert its moon from its orbit

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This is what the Earth would look like if it had two moons. From Wikipedia

Earth has a new 'moon'

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Trees felled by the Tunguska asteroid strike in 1908 as photographed by a Russian expedition in 1929. From Wikipedia

Astronomers will search the tauroid swarm for bodies the size of the asteroid that crashed into Tongska

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Yabusa 2. Image: Japanese Space Agency

Watch: The Yabosa 2 spacecraft landed on the asteroid, collected a soil sample and took off

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Asteroid impact on Earth. Image: NASA

The Asteroid Day organization will hold events at the end of June around the world

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An image consisting of three color filters in visible light of the Andromeda galaxy taken with the telescope of the Zwicky facility on Mount Plumer. The image covers 2.9 square degrees - one 16th of the telescope's full field. Andromeda or Messier 31 is the nearest large galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, which is 2.5 million light-years away. Photo credit: ZTF/D. Goldstein/R. Hurt/Caltech

Over 1,100 supernovae and 50 near-Earth objects have been discovered through a new survey

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Asteroids pass by the Earth. Image: NASA

Considerable amounts of water were discovered in the Bennu asteroid, did the asteroids bring the water to Earth?

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A photograph of the Beno asteroid from the cameras of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, from an altitude of about 80 km. Photo: NASA

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft reaches asteroid 'Beno'

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An artist's impression of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test DART spacecraft accelerating towards the smaller of the two bodies in the Didymos asteroid system. Image: NASA/APL

NASA is making progress in developing a spacecraft to divert asteroids from their orbits

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Asteroid 2016 HO3 has an orbit around the Sun that keeps it a constant companion of Earth. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A new permanent companion of the Earth ("Moon") has been discovered

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The celestial body that wiped out the dinosaurs. Illustration: shutterstock

What killed the dinosaurs?

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A large near-Earth asteroid. Illustrative image: shutterstock

NASA reassures: an asteroid with a diameter of over one and a half kilometers will pass on Saturday at a safe distance

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Illustration of the meteorite impact that caused the unique double crater in Sweden. Credit: Don Dixon/Erik Sturkell/University of Gothenburg

For the first time, a double impact crater was found on Earth

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Description of the capture of the rock on the surface of a large asteroid by a robotic spacecraft in Operation ARM. Image: NASA

NASA will tow a rock from the face of a near-Earth asteroid into lunar orbit where astronauts can study it

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An asteroid passes by the Earth. Illustration: shutterstock

Contrary to writing in the tabloids: a large asteroid will indeed pass by the Earth this morning but will not collide with it

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A complex and challenging task. The spacecraft landed on the asteroid. Image: Japanese space agency JAXA

This morning, Japan launched the Yabusa-2 spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid

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An astronaut hovers near a small asteroid. Illustration: shutterstock

On asteroid studies, and their contribution towards the manned journey to Mars

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This figure illustrates the passage of asteroid 2014 RC on September 7, 2014. At closest approach, the asteroid will come within about one-tenth the distance of the Moon. The times indicated in the figure are according to Greenwich Mean Time. Image: NASA/Caltech

A small asteroid will pass about 34 thousand km from the Earth

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The Sentinel spacecraft will circle the Sun, and will look for near-Earth objects that could harm the Earth. Photo: B612

Surprise: an asteroid impact on Earth occurs twice a year on average

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The orbit of the Apollo object - the near-Earth asteroid 2014 DX110 that was discovered just a week before its expected transit near Earth. Figure: NASA\JPL's Solar System Dynamics Small-Body Database Browser.

Video: Tonight an asteroid passed between us and the moon's orbit. Another one will pass tomorrow

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