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An asteroid the size of a football pitch will zoom past Earth on Friday, coming close enough for Nasa to issue a warning.

Scientists simulate a nuclear bomb's impact on an approaching asteroid using AI, discovering potential deflection or fragmentation to avert disaster. Continue reading for more details.

In February 2013, an asteroid about the size of a house punched its way through Earth’s atmosphere and broke apart over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The blast was so strong, it left a bright streak in the skies and triggered a powerful shockwave, shattering glass and resulting in the injury of over a 1,000 people.

The Apollo-group asteroid 2023 HG1 is set to make a close approach to Earth, traveling at a speed of 7200kmph., Technology & Science News, Times Now

MIT postdoc Saverio Cambioni discusses new science from NASA’s DART mission, which slammed into asteroid Dimorphos, deflecting it slightly and finding it to be a boulder-rich “rubble-pile.”

Even as astronomers are building capacities to spot them early, this is only the sixth meteor in over a decade to be spotted before it entered Earth's atmopshere.

And 55 minutes to fly around the bigger rock. but crashing a spacecraft at 14,000 miles per hour into dimorphos has given it a kick, changing its speed just a fraction. and now, nasa has confirmed that this has altered its orbit. it now takes 11 hours and 23 minutes. thats a huge decrease of 32 minutes. if you wanted to do this in the future, potentially, it could potentially work, but youd want to do it years in advance. warning time is really key here in order to enable this sort of asteroid d...

Just a fraction. and now, nasa has confirmed that this has altered its orbit. it now takes 11 hours and 23 minutes. thats a huge decrease of 32 minutes. if you wanted to do this in the future, potentially, it could potentially work, but youd want to do it years in advance. warning time is really key here in order to enable this sort of asteroid deflection to potentially be used in the future. another close encounter of this asteroid is already planned. in two years, europe will send a spacecraft...

The dust tail it ejected is a whopping 10,000 kilometers long.

NASAs DART mission to crash into the Dimorphos will not affect the safety of the Earth.