How Dangerous Is the “Doomsday” Asteroid Swarm?
New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...
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'Severe' solar storm that hit Earth Thursday could be 'global phenomenon' with auroras as far south as California
A powerful solar outburst hit Earth Thursday, triggering a "severe" geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be visible as far south ...
Atlas comet tracker: Last chance to spot comet that may never return
Outer space is giving stargazers a rare, celestial treat - an icy comet that will take 80,000 years to return – if it ...
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Giant Coronal Mass Ejection May Hit Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Before It Hits Earth
The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet ... it's not looking great for Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS. The comet may be hit later today or early Wednesday by the CME, which could ...
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A comet may have hit the Earth 56 million years ago, study says
Million of years in the past, a comet or an asteroid might have slammed into the Earth at an important time ... sediment was deposited — a space rock hit the planet,” Morgan Schaller, the ...
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What If the Largest Asteroid Hit Earth?
Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...
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Earth's ancient APOCALYPSE: Huge comet hit Earth 12,000 years ago - sparking an ice age that decimated humans, expert claims in controversial Netflix series
Controversially, he also claims that the rapid shift in climate patterns was caused by a collision with a comet in what he calls the 'Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis'. '12,800 years ago the Earth ...
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How To See the ATLAS Comet Going Headless for Halloween
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is due to pass closest to the sun on October 28, and may be visible to the naked eye in the days ...
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To see the brightest comet since 2006, hit the beach this month
The brightest comet visible from Earth since 2006 ... Basically, as Cooke said, “downtown L.A. isn’t going to cut it.” Hit the beach: Since the asteroid will be visible on the low western ...
Outdoors: Rare chance to see comet makes one ponder about Earth’s future
Hanging above was a visitor from the Oort cloud, a cluster of icy space debris far beyond our solar system. Only about 2 ...
What Hollywood gets wrong—and surprisingly right—about saving the world from killer asteroids
But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and ...