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Sectioned fragment from an iron meteorite that caused the Odessa crater in Texas, US, about 50,000 years ago

Iron meteorites

51动漫s prize iron meteorites highly because of their link to these asteroids that almost made it to becoming a planet.

Asteroid strike

Earth

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit just right for maximum damage

Space

We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

Asteroid

Space

Tiny meteorite found in Antarctica came from an unknown asteroid

Hayabusa-2 asteroid Ryugu

Space

Bombing asteroid Ryugu reveals it is a spritely 9 million years old

Life

Inside the mission to stop killer asteroids from smashing into Earth

Earth

Did an asteroid impact 65 million years ago really kill the dinosaurs?

Grazing fireball

Space

鈥楪razing fireball鈥� skimmed Earth’s atmosphere then went back to space

Celestial time travel: How asteroids can reveal the history of space

Michele Bannister

The inside story on ‘Oumuamua and other interstellar worlds

In 2017, a mysterious asteroid from a different solar system passed near Earth. Astrophysicist Michele Bannister has the inside story on 鈥橭umuamua

Meteorites

Space

Surprisingly round asteroid may actually be the smallest dwarf planet

Space

We can send a probe to interstellar comet Borisov 鈥� but not until 2030

Space

Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample