Asteroid could hit Mars next month: NASA
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An asteroid hurtling towards Mars has a one in 75 chance of chance of scoring a direct hit on the red planet next month, NASA experts said in a statement Friday.
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PASADENA, CALIF. - The twin Martian robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity will explore the Red Planet for another six months, NASA said Tuesday.
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Potentially dangerous small space rocks are smashing into the Moon a lot more often than was expected, according to an ongoing NASA study.
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An asteroid named for a Celtic god of war will come as close to Earth this week as it has since 1353. The space rock known as Toutatis will come on Wednesday within 960,000 miles of
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Scientists have confirmed that the Opportunity Mars  rover has run across a meteorite, sitting within the robot's exploration zone at  Meridiani Planum.
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An asteroid expected to fly past Earth in 2029 will be visible to the naked eye, scientists projected Thursday.
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NASA's Mars  rover Opportunity&nbsp;will back its  way out of a&nbsp;crater it has spent four months exploring after reaching terrain&nbsp;that appears  too treacherous to tread.&nbsp;
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PASADENA, Calif. NASA scientists have now ruled out the possibility that a recently discovered asteroid could hit Earth 25 years from now.
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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn.
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Scientists tracking an asteroid approaching Mars say that an impact with the Red Planet has become less likely. Refined estimates of the asteroid's orbit were made using new observations from a telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain, according to the Near-Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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NASA-funded astronomers are monitoring a Tunguska-sized asteroid that will pass within 30,000 miles of Mars on Jan. 30, 2008.  Based on data currently available, the space rock has a 1-in-75 chance of actually hitting Mars and blasting a crater more than half-a-mile wide.
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Mars shows signs of geologically recent volcanic activity, and scientists find to their surprise that another volcanic blast may be in the Red Planet&#39;s future.
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MOFFETT FIELD, CALIF. - The Mars rover Opportunity is set to examine the heat shield that protected the robot as it plunged through the planet&#39;s atmosphere last January.
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Launch date pencilled in NASA has confirmed the launch date for Dawn, its mission to the asteroid belt. The space agency is aiming for a launch window that opens at 07:25 (EDT) on 26 September, and closes again 29 minutes later.â¦
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Space watchers were set for a rare treat on Tuesday after US space authorities released pictures of a huge asteroid they said would zoom past Earth within sight of amateur telescopes.
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NASA&#39;s plans to send robots and people to the moon and Mars threaten long-planned science missions, a national science panel warns.