72 hours until impact

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What would we do if an asteroid was on a collision course with Earth? A

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All About Space Magazine

16 May 2024

The Week UK

Rocks from heaven: defending the earth against asteroid strikes

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

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The planets that shouldn’t exist

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

BBC Science Focus Magazine

Defenders of the earth

You’re woken in the middle of the night by an urgent phone call. An asteroid is headed straight for Earth and it’s your job to find out if it’ll strike the planet and rain destruction down upon us all

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Meteor hunters unite!

We all love watching meteor showers like the Perseids in August. These dramatic events are one of the easiest astronomical events to observe because they’re regular, you don’t need to travel to see th