Earth will have a close encounter with an asteroid this week
Image: Getty Images / Science Photo Library NASA predicts that an asteroid the size of a box truck is going
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Newly Discovered Asteroid Passes Close to Earth
A small asteroid flew very close to Earth on Thursday night, less than a week after astronomers discovered the object.
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Sweden Says It Has Uncovered a Rare Earth Bonanza
A Swedish mining company said this week that it had found Europe’s largest known deposit of coveted rare earth metals,
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A New Puzzle Turns Earth Into a Rubik’s Cube, But More Complex
Another orbit around the sun and here we are again: back where we started but spun about — changed, perhaps
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For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age
The official timeline of Earth’s history — from the oldest rocks to the dinosaurs to the rise of primates, from
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NASA’s next mission will deliver an unprecedented look at all of the water on Earth
Getty Images 2022 has been a huge year for NASA — which this year launched the Artemis moon mission, saw
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Artemis 1 mission: After slingshot lunar flyby, NASA’s Orion is headed back to Earth
Orion has completed its flyby burn, committing the spacecraft to a December 11 splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Image: NASA
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With Mauna Loa’s Eruption, a Rare Glimpse Into the Earth
In 1963, a geophysicist named John Tuzo Wilson proposed that the islands, which are covered with layers of volcanic stone,
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Earth Now Has 8 Billion Humans. This Man Wishes There Were None.
“It was very nice news for me that this kind of group existed, because one usually, with this kind of
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In Indonesia, an Earthquake, Landslides and Homes ‘Flat to the Earth’
Supartika was cooking lunch at home in a mountainous village famed for its rice, when without warning, she felt the
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