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Watch an asteroid vaporize life on Earth in this scary simulation (video)

Like any good disaster film, the video shows the destruction of well-known landmarks like Big Ben and the Parthenon...

2022 AP7: “Planet killer” asteroid found hiding in sun’s glare

The asteroid crosses the Earth's orbit but experts say any possible collision probably wouldn't happen for a few thousand years...

Bizarre near-Earth asteroid is spinning faster every year & scientists aren’t sure why

Astronomers have discovered that a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid has an unusual accelerating spin that could eventually change its trajectory

Asteroid which killed dinosaurs “caused 2.8-mile-high tsunami”

The initial energy in the impact tsunami was up to 30,000 times larger than the energy in the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami

Huge 6,000-mile-long debris trail now follows asteroid slammed by NASA Dart spacecraft

“It is amazing how clearly we were able to capture the structure and extent of the aftermath in the days following the impact”

Dinosaurs weren’t wiped out by an asteroid 66 million years ago, study suggests

Researchers believe that huge, continent-spanning 'flood basalt' eruptions are what caused the mass extinction – and others in Earth's history

In Armageddon mission, Nasa to crash $330m spacecraft into asteroid to alter its course

The half-tonne probe will be travelling at more than four miles a second

Earth was hit by another huge asteroid at the same time as the one that wiped out dinosaurs, vast crater suggests

The new crater, nicknamed Nadir, appears to have been caused by something that would be comparably destructive on its own

NASA: Asteroid 2.3 times the size of dinosaur heading for Earth

Asteroid 2022 PW may be small, but it will fly dangerously close to the Earth, relatively close to the Moon's distance to the planet

Asteroid swoops past Earth just days after being discovered by NASA

Experts are concerned that we could be taken by surprise by a hazardous asteroid so NASA & other space agencies have launched planetary protection programs

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