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The Sciences

Asteroid Mining Gives Companies Hope in the Search for Rare Metals

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Asteroid Has a 1% Chance to Impact Earth in 2032 — Should We Be Worried?

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Astronomers Use JWST To Study a Rare Asteroid-Comet Hybrid Named “Chiron”

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The 2024 Geminid Meteor Shower Is About To Peak — Here’s What to Know

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Major Eocene Asteroid Didn't Change Earth's Climate in the Long Term

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Large Meteor Impacts Can Cause Extinction, But Also May Be Beneficial For Life 

Hypothetical Ring System around a modern Earth

Planet Earth

The Earth Might Have Been a Ringed Planet Long Ago

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Environment

Sensations of Summer Podcast

Close-up images of asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite Selam, taken by NASA Lucy Spacecraft

Astronomers Spot First Conjoined Moon Orbiting an Asteroid 

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Shooting Stars Could Just Be Space Debris Moving at 100,000 Miles Per Hour

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How Did Some Animals Survive the Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs? 

Asteroids fall on the dinosaurs

Did a Dust Plume Kill the Dinosaurs?

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小行星

小行星采矿为企业寻找稀有金属带来希望

小行星2032年有1%几率撞击地球——我们应该担心吗？

天文学家用JWST研究一颗罕见的“半人马”小行星-彗星混合体“喀戎”

2024年双子座流星雨即将迎来峰值——你需要了解的一切

主要始新世小行星并未长期改变地球气候

巨大陨石撞击可导致灭绝，但也可能对生命有益

很久以前，地球可能是一个有环行星

夏日感觉播客

天文学家首次观测到一颗围绕小行星运行的共轭卫星

流星雨可能只是每小时 100,000 英里速度运行的太空碎片

小部分动物如何在杀死恐龙的小行星撞击中幸存下来？

是尘埃羽流杀死了恐龙吗？

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