Austin working early to address ‘budget asteroids’; it may mean a tax rate election
After Austin Mayor Kirk Watson announced the city would change the way it works on its budget, the Audit and Finance ...
Billionaire utopian city launches new shipyard plan
The Solano County town of Collinsville is located roughly 40 miles from San Francisco on the Sacramento River, which ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists search for elusive dark matter throughout the universe
Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
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'Potentially hazardous' pyramid-size asteroid will make its closest flyby of Earth for more than 100 years this Wednesday
The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...
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“The Office” turns 20! See the stars of the hit NBC sitcom, then and now
But when the mockumentary series first aired as a midseason replacement on NBC on March 24, 2005, it struggled in the ratings ...
NASA Image Reveals How Asteroid Transformed a Mountain
The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.
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City-killer asteroid may be hurtling towards Earth right NOW…& we have no way to detect it, space agency chiefs warn
A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4 ...
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Spinning through space: The astronomers watching the skies for asteroids
Luckily YR4 is not large enough to be capable of making our species extinct but it could still be a "city killer ... rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.