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Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site stayed hot for millions of years

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered microbial life

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Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth

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We could protect Earth from dangerous asteroids using a huge magnet

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We’ve spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast

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Private company to land on asteroid Apophis as it flies close to Earth

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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

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NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time

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How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?

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This is a false-color composite image of the Fomalhaut System taken with the Hubble telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument in 2010 and 2012. The black circle at the center of the image blocks out the light from the bright star, allowing reflected light from the belt and planet to be photographed.

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Two asteroids crashed around a nearby star, solving a cosmic mystery

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Chance of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025

A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance of it impacting the planet

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Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it

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We’ve found an unexpected structure in the solar system’s Kuiper belt

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Chemistry

Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places

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Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you

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