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Asteroid 2023 DZ2, nicknamed “Dizzy,” will safely cruise past Earth on Saturday, March 25 at 17,000 ... mph. getty Astronomers have spotted a large asteroid destined to whizz unusually close to Earth. First noticed just three weeks ago,…

Topline A newly discovered asteroid will dash past Earth on Thursday night, dipping well below the orbit of most satellites—though viewers will need help to see it— in one of the planet’s closest near miss encounters since records began.…

The just-found near-Earth asteroid 2023 BU will sail just 3,500 km above Earth this week. Getty An asteroid about the size of a giraffe was discovered last weekend and will make an extremely close approach to Earth this Thursday just as a…

A view of the Geminid meteor shower in Tagong Grassland, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China, ... Dec. 13, 2020. - (Photo credit should read Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Future Publishing via…

Mars was covered in deep oceans. Then ‘something catastrophic’ happened, say scientists getty Mars was a water world. Planetary scientists see evidence of water all over the red planet, but a new study of meteorites suggests that Mars was…

A Martian megatsunami may have been caused by an asteroid collision similar to the one that killed ... the dinosaurs on Earth 66 million years ago. getty A huge tsunami may have surged through an ancient ocean on Mars after an asteroid…

Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s ... Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) hiding in the glare…

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - FEBRUARY 22: The Burj Kalifa Tower, the world's tallest man-made ... structure at 824.55 meters (2625 feet) is seen on February 25, 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty…

NASA recently successfully crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroidcalled Dimorphos. The test was done in order to prepare for a possible unfortunate event that sees an asteroid hurtling towards planet Earth by readying plans for a…

Astronomers using the NSF’s NOIRLab’s SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and ... debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA’s DART spacecraft when it impacted on 26 September 2022. In this image,…