Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Urged to Save Humanity From 'Earth-Killer' Asteroid
The tech billionaires could collaborate on a "humanity-saving" moon base in case an asteroid hits Earth, Douglas MacKinnon wrote.
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Scientists say 2 asteroids may actually be fragments of destroyed planets from our early solar system
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
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Nasa reveals orbit of asteroid that could collide with Earth in 2032
Days after it was confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1-in-83 chance of colliding with Earth, American space agency, Nasa ...
Astronomers are tracking giant asteroid's chances of hitting Earth
YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...
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Astronomers Raise Odds of Asteroid Impact in 2032 to 2.3 Percent—Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic
The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...
Massive Asteroid Is Headed for Earth. Here's Where It Could Hit in 2032
According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...
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Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
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NASA finds life's building blocks from an unknown water world in asteroid sample
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
An object left a big gash on Mars. It also spawned a quake.
The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing insights into life's ingredients on Earth, paralleling those found in the Revelstoke meteorite's analysis.