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How Can We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth?
Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
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NASA warns Hawking's 'gigantic ball of fire' prediction could destroy Earth sooner than expected
Two weeks before his death in 2018, Stephen Hawking issued a chilling warning about the future of Earth, and now NASA has ...
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Earth and Space
It includes all of space ... as asteroids and comets in orbit around it. Planet: a planet is smaller than a star and is either a small ball of rock e.g., the Earth or a large ball of gas e.g ...
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Earth's Interior
The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...
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No, Earth’s Inner Core Is Not Reversing The Direction Of Its Spin
This appears to be the case, to a rather stunning extent, in the instance of the reporting this week around new ... to visualize this: Earth’s inner core is a solid ball that is surrounded ...