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  Asteroid that killed dinosaurs may have punctured Earth's crust: study

  World | November 22, 2016 10:38 IST

  The asteroid which killed the age of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago may have nearly punctured the Earth's crust, and temporarily caused the surface of the planet to behave like a slow-moving fluid, a

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  VIDEO! NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft all set for asteroid Bennu mission

  World | September 08, 2016 15:38 IST

  NASA will launch the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid Bennu on Thursday to bring a small sample back for study. Bolted to the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket,

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  Video! NASA set to launch first asteroid sample return mission next month

  World | August 18, 2016 13:28 IST

  The US space agency NASA is all set to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth, which will help study how planets formed and how life began. The Origins,

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  Historic launch! NASA’s first OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to go on sample return mission from Sept 8 (Video)

  World | August 09, 2016 17:49 IST

  NASA scientists are all set to bring samples from the asteroid bennu and for this they are launching a spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx on September 8. As per reports, scientists at NASA are working along

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  NASA to send spacecraft to probe asteroid that may destroy Earth

  World | August 01, 2016 15:37 IST

  An asteroid that will pass by the earth, as it does every six years, has scientists deeply worried. So much so, that NASA has said that they are sending a probe team to the asteroid's

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  How deep-sea creatures survived dinosaur-killing asteroid

  World | April 16, 2016 11:56 IST

  London:Scientists have solved the mystery behind how deep sea creatures managed to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and

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  Asteroid with platinum worth $5 trillion set to pass by Earth

  World | July 18, 2015 20:01 IST

  London:  Stargazers are in for a treat as a huge asteroid is set to pass by the Earth at 11 pm (London time) on Sunday. People in India can watch it live on the internet

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  US astronomer names asteroid after Malala Yousafzai

  World | April 12, 2015 9:23 IST

  Washington: An asteroid discovered by a US astronomer has been named after Pakistan's teenage education activist and the world youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.Amy Mainzer, an astronomer at NASA in California, discovered an

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  Asteroid that flew past Earth has small moon

  World | January 27, 2015 10:53 IST

  New York: The asteroid that flew past the Earth Jan 26 has its own small moon, NASA said.In the first radar images of asteroid called 2004 BL86, scientists working with NASA's Deep Space Network antenna

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  Huge asteroid to whip past Earth on Monday

  World | January 22, 2015 8:57 IST

  Cape Canaveral, Florida: An asteroid up to 1,800 feet (550 meters) across is headed Earth's way. But don't worry: It will miss us by 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers), about three times the distance between

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  Meteorite-hit near Nicaraguan capital likely was asteroid piece

  World | September 08, 2014 17:26 IST

  London: A meteorite that left a crater near the international airport in the Nicaraguan capital Managua may have been part of the asteroid, 60-feet in size, that flew past Earth last weekend.According to the Nicaraguan

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  Asteroid passing Earth will be closer than Moon

  World | March 05, 2014 17:20 IST

  Cape Canaveral: An asteroid is headed this way. But even though it will come closer than the moon, astronomers say it will pose no danger. The newly discovered asteroid, called 2014 DX110, will hurtle between

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  NASA discovers new potentially hazardous asteroid

  World | January 09, 2014 12:09 IST

  Washington: NASA's latest sky-mapping spacecraft has discovered a new potentially hazardous asteroid, 43 million kilometres from Earth.It is the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE)'s first such discovery since coming out of hibernation last

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  Delhi school students discover asteroid

  India | June 22, 2013 22:38 IST

  New Delhi, June 22: A new asteroid has been discovered by two students from a Delhi school and the find has been confirmed by the international space community, an NGO for popularizing space said Saturday.Shourya

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  Large asteroid to swing past the Earth today

  World | May 31, 2013 11:51 IST

  Washington, May 31: Astronomers getting their first close-up glimpse of a giant asteroid about to whiz by Earth found a surprise bonus rock. A smaller moon asteroid is circling the larger space rock, an unusual

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  Asteroid could fly 8,600 km from Earth in 2026

  World | April 26, 2013 11:36 IST

  Moscow, Apr 26: A celestial body 20 metres in diameter will pass dangerously close -- 8,620 km -- to the Earth's surface in 13 years, an Italian astronomer has said.The flyby of the asteroid 2013

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  Asteroid capture mission: Roscosmos to join hands with NASA

  World | April 06, 2013 8:45 IST

  Moscow, April 6:  Russia's space agency Roscosmos may join NASA's ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit for exploration, its head Vladimir Popovkin said."[It is] a very interesting project,

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  Asteroid to have a close brush with Earth on Feb 16

  India | January 31, 2013 14:05 IST

  Kolkata, Jan 31 : A piece of rock will have a close encounter with the Earth Feb 16, coming closer than some of the geostationary satellites orbiting the planet, said an official.The near earth asteroid,

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  Asteroid can narrowly miss Earth in February 2013, but may destroy satellites

  World | May 20, 2012 11:00 IST

  Madrid, May 20: Astronomers at the LaSagra Observatory in Spain have disclosed that a  newly discovered 150-foot-wide asteroid may come so close to the Earth in February that it might hit satellites, Daily Mail reported.The

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  NASA Spacecraft Will Pluck Samples From Asteroid

  World | May 26, 2011 15:59 IST

  Los Angeles, May 26: A NASA spacecraft will reach out and touch an asteroid and send pieces back to Earth, the space agency announced Wednesday.The unmanned probe won't land on the rocky body. But it