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ESA has begun the development of the Ramses mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of its 2029 close flyby of Earth. The €63 million contract to start preparatory…

In the vast expanse of our solar system, celestial bodies hurtle through space, occasionally crossing paths with Earth. Among these cosmic wanderers, one asteroid has captured the attention of astronomers...

In 2029, an asteroid larger than the Eiffel Tower, named 99942 Apophis, will skim past Earth, offering scientists a unique opportunity to study this near-Earth object up close. The European...

Posted on Oct 27, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Sixty Six million years ago a 14-kilometer long, Mount-Everest sized asteroid blasted a hole in the ground, when at the moment of...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has provided groundbreaking insights into asteroid Bennu, revealing key clues about the origins of life on Earth and the potential existence of a fifth fundamental force in…

Posted on May 15, 2022 in Alien Life, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Multiverse, Science, Science News, Technology,...

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“Beyond Homo Sapiens” –‘Just a Slightly Different Roll of the Darwinian Dice’ Eerie Implications of Hawking Points –“Corpses of Black Holes from Before the Big Bang” “2068” –Massive Asteroid Apophis...

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“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Feb 20, 2022 in Astronomy, NASA, News, Science “This group of asteroids we hypothesized is probably about 1000-times less well populated than the asteroid belt,” NASA astrophysicist Marc...