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A 95-foot, airplane-sized asteroid 2025 ME92 to fly past Earth at high speed on July 31
Measuring roughly 95 feet across, the rock belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that cross Earth’s path ...
Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a meteor hit Earth: Why it needs to be protected
Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...
China's Tianwen-2 Probe To Collect Samples From An Earth Quasi-Moon - Launch Prep Underway
The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Remember the June fireball? Here's how scientists are classifying the meteorite that came crashing through a Georgia home
Planetary Geologist R. Scott Harris, working under the auspices of UGA, analyzed fragments of the meteorite with an electron ...
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When did our solar system's planets form? Discovery of tiny meteorite may challenge the timeline
Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...
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‘Hope to showcase wonders’: Aswin Sekhar on joining elite committee on meteor science
Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. Meteor scientist Aswin Sekhar has joined the organising committee of the prestigious Commission ...
How Many Meteors Actually Hit Earth Every Year?
Meteors can light up the sky in the form of shooting stars, but they often burn up in the atmosphere. Some are able to make it through, however.