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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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