Physics
Asteroids get spun so fast by the force of sunlight they fall apart
Sunlight can transfer energy to asteroids and make them spin so fast they break up. Understanding how they break could help us protect Earth from asteroid impacts
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Earth
NASA鈥檚 deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world
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Earth
Asteroid strike may have forged the oldest rocks ever found on Earth
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Space
Interstellar visitor 鈥極umuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid
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Space
Japan鈥檚 Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has arrived at asteroid Ryugu
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Space
Japan鈥檚 Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is gearing up to bomb an asteroid
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Space
NASA outlines its plans to deal with a large asteroid impact
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Space
Two meteors in two days lit up the sky in China and Botswana
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Earth
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming
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Space
Weird backwards asteroid may be an interstellar interloper
An asteroid that has been orbiting backwards near Jupiter for billions of years may actually be an interstellar rock captured by our solar system
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Space
We鈥檝e lost track of more than 900 near-Earth asteroids
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Space
Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet
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Space
We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm
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Space
Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system
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