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‘Potentially hazardous’ 600-foot asteroid detected near Earth after a year of hiding in plain sight

A skyscraper-size asteroid was revealed in year-old telescope data

NASA gives go for launch of mission to $10-quadrillion asteroid

It's estimated that the mineral wealth in the belt is enough to cut a $100-billion check for every person on Earth

Mysterious near-Earth asteroid Phaethon just got even weirder

New observations of the rock show its comet-like tail is not made of dust, possibly altering the origin story of the Geminid meteor shower

An Asteroid just passed a few thousand kilometres from Earth

The distance is just slightly farther than the distance between Perth and Sydney

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

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