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Massive, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid due to make closest-ever approach to Earth tonight — and you can watch it liveThe stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter will be livestreamed for everyone to see.
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'Fireball' meteor discovered hours before exploding above Niagara Falls was the smallest asteroid ever seenAn asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ever properly measured, researchers say.
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Earth's '2nd moon' escapes our planet's orbit — will it ever return?The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away from our planet in an orbit around the sun.
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Phew! No 'doomsday' asteroids hide in famous broken comet's debris streamThe Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't hide a civilization-killing asteroid.
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Nuking an asteroid could save Earth from destruction, researchers show in 1st-of-its-kind X-ray experimentA powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new experiment suggests.
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Earth once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggestsThe ring could be responsible for a prolonged drop in temperatures millions of years ago.
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Earth's new 'mini-moon' will orbit our planet for the next 2 monthsA tiny asteroid will orbit around our planet for 53 days from the end of September.
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a skyscraper to skim past Earth on TuesdayThe gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a skyscraper, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
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'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints — but we won't know for 3 more yearsNew simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a collision course with Earth by another asteroid before it flies past our planet in 2029.
