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Watch an asteroid the size of the Washington Monument zoom past Earth live on Sept. 18 (video)

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.
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Watch an asteroid the size of an airliner speed toward Earth live online Sept. 2 (video)

The Virtual Telescope Project is set to host a free YouTube stream covering the flyby starting at 7 p.m. ET (23:00 GMT) on ...

Earth’s close encounter with jumbo jet-sized asteroid as it screams past closer than moon; scientists study rare near-miss encounter

Asteroid 2025 QD8, about 22 meters wide, safely passed Earth on Wednesday at a distance of 135,500 miles, closer than the ...

NASA Detects New Interstellar Visitor to Our Solar System: Could It Be an Alien Probe?

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...
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A Jet-Sized Asteroid Just Flew Closer to Earth Than the Moon — And NASA Caught It Live

An asteroid the size of a commercial jet passed closer to Earth than the Moon on September 3, 2025, in a high-speed flyby ...
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Where could alien life exist in our solar system?

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...
New Scientist

What would happen if Earth was the centre of the solar system?

Truly making Earth the centre of our solar system is going to take more than just fudging the maths. The sun is so much more massive than our puny planet that it is nearly impossible to force the ...