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Researchers have discovered the largest crystals yet of a mysterious form of diamond called lonsdaleite, which is 58% harder than Earth diamonds.

A small supersonic asteroid, travelling at ten times the speed of a bullet, will pass by the Earth on Tuesday, media reports said.

Massive asteroid larger than the pyramids heads closest to Earth this week - NASA has issued a warning about another giant rock, named 2013 BO76, fast approaching the Earth on March 24.

Massive asteroid crashes into Earth as 3 more whizz past at tremendous speed – All you need to know - A massive asteroid reportedly came into contact with the Earth on Saturday but there were no casualties or destruction reports.

From the death of Henry II, the Great Fire of London, and French Revolution to Napoleon’s conquest, Hitler’s ascent to power and the atomic bomb, the French oracle has been credited for foretelling numerous events. Will the French oracle be right this time?

NASA will launch a mission that is set to strike an asteroid moonlet to simulate the deflection of a possible Earth-bound asteroid.

It is through these giant impacts that planets like the young Earth grow to their final mass and achieve long-term stable orbital configurations.

In 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere over the Tunguska River in Russia, devastating a 1200-square-mile area. In 1978, Slovak astronomer Ľubor Kresák proposed that the asteroid was a fragment of Comet Encke, a periodic comet that orbits the Sun every 3.3 years and is part of the group responsible for the annual... Read more »

From both the “What could possibly go wrong?” and the “Science fiction becomes reality” files comes word that NASA has officially announced the launch date for a mission to attempt to deflect an asteroid from its path as a test of technology that may one day be needed to save Earth from a meteor or... Read more »

King revealed that nuclear bombs could be used only as a last resort to save planet earth