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Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula, forming the Chicxulub crater

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Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago

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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction

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Osiris Rex sample

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Samples from asteroid Bennu contain the key ingredients of life

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A meteor from the Draconid meteor shower

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How to see the Draconid meteor shower peak tonight

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How asteroids can help us understand our place in the cosmos

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Samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx

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OSIRIS-REx is about to fling samples of the asteroid Bennu at Earth

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NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal asteroid may reveal how Earth formed

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Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?

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What would really happen if you landed on an asteroid?

Asteroids are far weirder than we had imagined – landing on one wouldn't go as you expected, says astronomer Phil Plait

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Absolutely enormous asteroid belt discovered around a nearby star

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Samples from asteroid Ryugu contain one of the building blocks of RNA

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Asteroids that speed up unexpectedly may be ‘dark comets’ in disguise

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What we learned from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission

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