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Louisiana fossils reveal mosasaur life before dinosaur-killing asteroid impact
Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was ...
NASA Warns Of Giant 100-ft Asteroid To Come Scarily Close To Earth On Rakshabandhan: Are We Safe?
Rakshabandhan this year coincides with an alert from NASA regarding asteroid 2025 OY12, a 100-foot object set to pass Earth ...
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You're More Likely to Die From an Asteroid Than Rabies, Scientists Find
The bad news is that death by asteroid impact is more likely to happen to you than death by rabies. The worse news is that ...
Move over Mercury—Chiron is in retrograde: What even is Chiron?
You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: "Chiron is in retrograde." If you're ...
Two giant asteroids to pass Earth today: Is there a cause of concern?
The first asteroid, officially named (2025 OJ1), is estimated to be around 300 feet wide, while the second is 2019 CO1,  sizable at around 200 feet.
The mysterious 'dark comets' prowling our Solar System
These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...
Shocking Study Shows You're More Likely To Die From An Asteroid Than Rabies
A new study finds that dying from an asteroid impact is more likely than dying from rabies, though both are rare. The ...
NASA monitors asteroid 2025 OT7 as it approaches Earth on August 5: Size, speed and flyby distance revealed
Space is an active place. Asteroid 2025 OT7 will fly by Earth in August 2025. It is about 170 feet wide. It will travel at ...
What is Chiron? The asteroid currently in retrograde
Chiron went into retrograde (that is, apparent retrograde motion) on July 30, 2025, and will go back to normal on January 2, 2026. But unless you have a telescope or do some long-exposure photography, ...
Scientists reveal how likely you are to be killed by an asteroid
The researchers used NASA data to work out that there is a one in 156,000 chance of an individual being killed by an asteroid ...
Look Up! An asteroid taller than a 30-story building and another the size of a jumbo jet to pass Earth. Here’s what NASA says
NASA reports two asteroids will closely approach Earth on August 8, 2025. Asteroid (2025 OJ1) is about 300 feet wide.
See ESA Hera Spacecraft's Trajectory To The Didymos Asteroid System
ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...