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Asteroid 2055 YU55 Visible From Earth Tonight

What is being called near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 is on a trajectory that will take it safely between the Earth and the orbital path of the moon...

Asteroids hitting Earth within the year very real probability

Daniel Durda, Planetary Scientist and expert on asteroids, talked about the possibility of asteroids striking the Earth during the first hour of...

School-bus-sized asteroid just missed the Earth

Just a few decades ago, most scientists thought the idea of asteroids crashing to Earth to be ludicrous. Today, this same idea is an accepted fact....

Close call asteroid no real risk to Earth

Despite the allure of "asteroid wipes out Earth" speculation and movies, experts say that a newly-discovered asteroid presents no real...

A Cosmic Close Call...

Hullo my darling little paranoids! Lock up the children, dig out your Bibles and pass the ammunition, cause it's time to start panicking...I do...

Aircraft carrier-sized asteroid to buzz Earth today

Today, Earth is going to have a close call with a huge asteroid, one that, if it were to hit, could easily destroy a major city. Fortunately, the...

Asteroid 2005 YU55 near Earth November 8

On November 8, 2011 the asteroid 2005 YU55 will come within about 325,000 kilometers (202,000 miles) of Earth's center. This distance is about...

Mountain on asteroid Vesta is three times taller than Mt. Everest

Vesta, while one of the largest asteroids, is still a lot smaller than Earth, and yet it has a mountain that is three times taller than Mt. Everest...