Astronomers announce discovery of new asteroid — only to learn it’s a Tesla sports car hurling through space
The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...
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Asteroid 2024 JN16 Makes A Close Approach To Earth
These actors went to the dark side and it paid off! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the ...
Could a meteorite hit you? How often they fall to Earth, according to experts
One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big bruise.
Space object or sports car? How a Tesla Roadster was briefly mistaken for an asteroid
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...
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NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon
The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...
Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon
Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...
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It’s Not Sci-Fi: Americans Support Asteroid Defense Spending
In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...
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Empire State Building-sized asteroid approaching Earth: NASA is tracking it
A big asteroid, the size of the Empire State Building, called 2024 WY70 is on a collision course with Earth this weekend.
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Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of Moon Rock
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...
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NASA Discovers Near-Earth Asteroid Likely a Lunar Fragment
The small near-Earth object 2024 PT5 captured the world’s attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to, but never orbiting, our planet for several months.