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The DART mission will hit an asteroid in less than 100 days to demonstrate a new technology that can deflect future asteroids headed towards Earth.

A giant asteroid, approximately four times larger than the Empire State Building, will zip past the Earth on May 27.

Gratitude to a gentleman named bill gray with a company called pluto projects he helps professional and amateur astronomers monitor earth objects. funny, boris and christi, nobody was monitoring this for us. thank goodness bill has been. what we know, it's too close to the sun right now. around february 8th we'll get a glimpse of this thing. it's about 49 feet long, 4,000 tons. when it does impact the moon it's going 5600 miles per hour. we'll get a glimpse around february 7th or 8th, according to bill's calculations and he's a pretty great astronomer, it should impact the back side of the moo...

It seems one can’t buy a car these days that isn’t equipped with obstacle-detection and accident-avoidance systems to compensate for the blind spots that hide these dangerous encounters. Too bad the same isn’t true for planets! NASA just revealed that its fancy-schmancy asteroid detection system has a major blind spot that causes it to miss... Read more »

In January, NASA warns that at least FIVE asteroids will approach Earth, one of which is the size of Big Ben.