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Illustration of a near-Earth asteroid, created using actual space images of Earth and the asteroid Mathilde. Credit: Earth: ESA/Rosetta; asteroid Mathilde: NASA/NEAR
No, we're not in any danger from an asteroid passing Earth on Saturday night
Phil Plait
Jun 5, 2020
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The Earth has a new minimoon! But not for long…
Phil Plait
Feb 27, 2020
The path (in green) of the “minimoon” 2020 CD3, a small asteroid that has orbited the Earth since 2017.
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Whack 'em or nuke 'em: How to deflect a killer asteroid
Phil Plait
Nov 20, 2019
Artwork depicting NASA's Deep Impact mission, which slammed a 370-kilogram copper slug into the comet Tempel 1, to test the concept of pushing dangerous space rocks into safe orbits. Credit: NASA
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Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth
Phil Plait
Nov 14, 2019
Artwork showing Hayabusa2 arriving at the tiny asteroid Ryugu. Credit: Akihiro Ikeshita
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NASA is going to perform an 'autopsy' on a dead planet
Elizabeth Rayne
Jun 17, 2019
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There’s an asteroid coming Deep Impact-levels of close to Earth
Elizabeth Rayne
May 3, 2019
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Yes, Japan just bombed an asteroid
Elizabeth Rayne
Apr 5, 2019
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft bombing a crater into the asteroid Ryugu
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We’re more doomed than we thought if an asteroid comes for us
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 7, 2019
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No, 'Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship. It might be even weirder.
Phil Plait
Feb 18, 2019
Artwork depicting what ‘Oumuamua might look like; observations indicate it’s highly elongated. But where did it come from? Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
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Could smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid save humanity in the near future?
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 3, 2019
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A weirdly gorgeous galaxy and an interplanetary interloper
Phil Plait
Dec 28, 2018
An image of the galaxy NGC 3981 has an interloper: An asteroid passing between us and it, streaked due to the long exposure and colored due to different filters being used. Credit: ESO
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Deep freeze impact: Scientists find a *huge* asteroid impact crater under Greenland’s ice
Phil Plait
Nov 14, 2018
Incoming! Somewhat fanciful artwork depicting the asteroid responsible for the Hiawatha impact crater asteroid breaking up high above the Earth before slamming into Greenland. Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Cryospheric Sciences Lab, NASA/GSFC
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Another robot lands on Ryugu
Phil Plait
Oct 8, 2018
An image from the MASCOT lander as it headed down to the asteroid Ryugu. Note the shadow of the lander to the lower left (this is reversed from the original image to get light source coming from above, so rocks don’t look like pits). Credit: JAXA/DLR/CNES
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Video from an asteroid’s surface!
Phil Plait
Oct 1, 2018
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Robots are now hopping around on the surface of an asteroid
Phil Plait
Sep 24, 2018
An image caught mid-bounce of the MINERVAII-1 A rover showing the surface of the asteroid Ryugu (left) and a reflection of sunlight (right). Credit: JAXA
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A bright meteor over Greenland didn't spark nuclear war. [Phew]
Phil Plait
Aug 3, 2018
The Chelyabinsk, Russia fireball on Feb. 15, 2013, seen from a dashboard camera. Credit: Евгений Славенков via YouTube
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