Asteroid
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Science
How a Tiny Asteroid Strike May Save Earthlings From City-Killing Space Rocks
Movies that imagine an asteroid or comet catastrophically colliding with Earth always feature a key scene: a solitary astronomer spots…
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World
How to Spot Asteroids
“Stay up all night,” says Gregory Leonard, a research scientist at the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey, who uses…
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Science
Big Rockets, Massive Asteroids and More Space Highlights for 2022
Spaceflight offered unceasing spectacles in 2021. At times, it was overwhelming. Two new rovers landed on Mars, one of them…
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Finance
How Do You Tell the World That Doomsday Has Arrived?
One of the thus-far theoretical duties of the astronomer is to inform the public that something very big and horrible…
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