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On August 16, a 100-foot asteroid will fly past the Earth at a distance just larger than the Moons orbit.

Surprise! Asteroid the size of two football fields hurled straight towards Earth. On July 26, astronomers in shock made the shocking discovery of the sneaky celestial body.

The mission could launch on China’s workhorse launcher, the Long March 3B rocket with an impactor and an orbiter.

China is set to enter the planetary defense game by targeting the potentially hazardous asteroid 2020 PN1 in 2026

Nasa has revealed that the surface of asteroid Bennu from where samples are coming to Earth is like a plastic ball pit, the same as play area for kids.

The asteroid impact that happened around 66 million years ago was so devastating and it sent plumes of debris into mighty heights of the earths atmosphere

Several space experts strongly believe that deadly events like asteroid hits are not confined to the past

The European Space Agency has stricken 2021 QMI from the asteroid risk as the asteroid impact will not happen for the next 100 years.

With a telescope, it will be possible to spot the comet and its vast tail of dust, which is tens of thousands of miles wide.

NASA has predicted the blue-whale-size asteroid will safely pass Earth by a significant distance of over 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers).