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Telescopes around the world are currently trained on a building-sized asteroid hurtling in Earth’s direction, in an effort to try to understand whether it might hit us. Our current best guess is ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos’ $10-billion Earth Fund has ended its support for the Science Based Targets initiative, the main verifier of corporate climate targets, the Financial Times ...

President Trump indicated Monday he wants a deal for rare earth elements and other items from Ukraine in exchange for continued military aid in the nation’s war against Russia. “We’re ...

While there’s still a nearly 99 percent chance that 2024 YR4 won’t impact Earth, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this rare asteroid poses a significant risk — rating it at Torino ...

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