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The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is now assembled ahead of its journey to analyze the asteroid smashed by NASA's DART mission.

Asteroid 2021 JA5 is around the size of 81 bulldogs, the symbol of the college football team of the University of Georgia. But it won't hit us – hopefully the Bulldog team will have better luck.

The ESA wants to know more about the Dimorphos asteroid and how NASA's DART mission affected it.

CHAMPAIGN — After developing an algorithm to help protect Earth from asteroid impacts, University of Illinois Assistant Professor Siegfried Eggl was surprised to have an asteroid named after him.

If a large asteroid impacted the Moon, would it cause problems for us here on Earth?

(1) JAYMEE GOH ANTHOLOGY HAS EKPEKI STORY. Don’t Touch That, an anthology about parenting edited by Jaymee Goh, was released this week. It includes Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s latest short story “Mother's Love, Father's Place”. He says, “It's a historical fantasy story set in southern Nigeria and touches on the killing of Twins in Calabar &

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GettyIt’s not really a question of whether a massive asteroid—one big enough to wipe out human civilization—will fall into a collision course with Earth. It’s a question of when.NASA estimates a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid, big enough to flatten a city, hits our planet every 70,000 years or so. Half-mile-wide rocks, capable of killing much of the life on Earth, strike every 700,000 years.Anticipating the inevitability of a catastrophic impact, scientists are scrambling t...

An AI algorithm was able to spot a massive potentially hazardous asteroid, 2022 SF289, that humans had missed, showing the capabilities of this technology for planetary defense.

The asteroid made a close approach to Earth last year. Click to read more. A 600-foot asteroid was detected near Earth after being hidden in plain sight for a year, according to reports this week.