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[ad_1] Today, November 25 will be a busy day in the skies above our planet: not one, but two asteroids will pass close enough to the Earth to be considered a "near …

[ad_1] The explosion has lined the map several settlements located around the Dead Sea, making it uninhabitable for centuries. The ancient biblical city of Sodom was not only a real place, it …

[ad_1] An asteroid that exploded in an air explosion may have destroyed the city of Tall el-Hammam from the Bronze Age 3700 years ago, archaeologists said on Saturday. The city, located in …

[ad_1] A multitude of galloping rocks have been spotted in recent days. NASA As the The meteorite shower Leonid illuminated the sky with bright fireballs during the past weeklarger space rocks were …

[ad_1] Asteroid formation by planetary collisionDon Davis via the University of Florida NASA's asteroid trackers warned that two gigantic asteroids would pass the speed of the Earth on November 20, 2018. The …

[ad_1] Asteroids should fly over our original planet less than twenty minutes apart, early Tuesday morning (20 November). The first of the space rocks, christened by NASA Asteroid 2018 VQ6, will reach …

[ad_1] Enlarge / This image, taken on Wednesday, shows the sampling head of the OSIRIS-REx sample acquisition mechanism, extended from the probe to the end of the robotic arm. NASA NASA officials …

[ad_1] Ok, so that was a bit dramatic, the truth is that boffins at NASA are telling us about a trio of asteroids which are set to pass us this weekend. According …

[ad_1] Are these good or bad things that come in threes? We'll know soon enough: according to data from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, at least three asteroids are about …

[ad_1] The largest of the three is about 100 feet in diameter. Three "huge" asteroids are expected to pass close to Earth this weekend, at such a near cosmic distance that some …