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Asteroid
Earth is set for another spooky encounter with a 700 metre asteroid that looks uncannily like a skull. The space rock first passed 'close' to our planet at 78,000mph (125,500km/h) at a distan…
ncannily like a skull that first passed our planet at 78,000mph (125,500km/h) at a distance of 310,000 miles (499,000km) on October 31, 2015, just in time for Halloween (artist's impression) Ear…
It’s a long shot, but scientists are about to listen very closely for radio signals from our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor Ever since its discovery in mid-October as it passed…
New data reveal that the interstellar asteroid that recently zipped through our solar system is rocky, cigar-shaped, and has a somewhat reddish hue. It’s the first confirmed object from another…
Hawking is leading an investigation into whether the first object ever to arrive from OUTSIDE our solar system is a spaceship from an alien civilisation. The first mysterious object to reach o…
Our solar system has a visitor. It's cylindrical, dark and reddish, a quarter-mile long. The object won't be staying. This fall, astronomers announced that the thing came blazing into …
A mysterious asteroid detected speeding past the sun in October has been confirmed by scientists to be a visitor from outside our solar system, the first of its kind to be detected. By Bill…
Now, new data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meter…
When it comes to the objects floating around in our solar system, scientists have a pretty good handle on what they all are. Aside from planets, dwarf planets, and moons, many smaller bodies — like c…
When China launched its first space station in 2011, it had great ambitions of using the craft to set up a larger space complex. But the Chinese space agency lost control of Tiangong-1 in September 2…
An asteroid the size of a house is set to give Earth a close shave, and you can watch part of the space rock's approach live online this evening (Oct. 11). By Mike Wall Space.com 10-11-…
A few days ago, the largest asteroid in more than a century flew past Earth . During the event, astronomers made a surprising discovery – the asteroid had two previously unseen moons. Called 3122 Flo…
NASA has been working determinedly to find dangers that Earth face from space, and has said that it has discovered 10 new asteroids which it considers could damage life on Earth. This vital discovery…
Killer asteroids on a crash course with Earth aren't just for imaginative sci-fi movies. NASA recognizes rogue asteroids as a legitimate concern, so it's developing a mission called the…
Oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface. If an asteroid were to strike us, it would almost certainly land in the water. This award-winning animation from Los Alamos National Lab shows a …
A bus-size asteroid that buzzed between the Earth and the moon at 3:25 p.m. EST (2025 GMT) on Thursday (Feb. 2) was spotted by one of the Slooh Community Observatory telescopes in the Canar…
