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NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

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"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough".

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Fossils of mosasaurs and early mammals found in Louisiana reveal how life changed after the asteroid that ended the age of ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.