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Earth had yet another close encounter with a giant asteroid on Thursday morning. However, we were fortunate that the 181-feet long asteroid named as 2019 ON did not collide with the Earth and zip past our planet. Yes, you read it right. Asteroid 2019 ON zoom …

Today is the 211th day of 2019. There are 154 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1945: The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. On…

In 1609, the English ship Sea Venture, commanded by Admiral Sir George Somers, ran ashore on Bermuda, where the passengers and crew founded a colony. In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine. In …

For a brief fraction of a second on an early March morning in 1954, the United States summoned a second sun into existence above Bikini Atoll. As the four-mile wide fireball bathed the Pacific seascape in its angry, white-red light, onlookers recognized some…

Earth had a dangerously close encounter yesterday with an asteroid, dubbed a 'city-killer,' that zoomed past it at 24 km/sec, and narrowly missed colliding into the Earth, according to scientists. The fast-moving asteroid was estimated to be between 187 feet …

On Thursday early morning, Earth had yet another close encounter with a giant asteroid. Yes, you read it right. Well, we were fortunate that the space rock named ‘2019 OK’ did not collide with Earth and just went past through our planet. A 328-feet-wide aster…

Earth nearly had a devastating collision with an asteroid travelling at nearly 15 miles a second today. Asteroid 2019 OK, estimated to be between 187 feet and 427 feet in diameter, came within 43,500 miles of striking the Earth closer than the moon. The ast…

An unexpected asteroid named 2019 OK just flew between Earth and the moon, hammering home the need for continued improvements in both finding and tracking potentially hazardous asteroids. (Credit: Illustration via Pixabay) Earth had a close encounter Thursda…

Tucked away in a corner of Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo, a ten-minute-walk away from Shin Kiba Station, is a tall A-frame building. Sitting inside on concrete floors and held aloft by metal supports is a weathered 94-foot long fishing boat. Today the boat is lar…

Earlier this month, obscured in all the fighting over President Trump's tweets, Irans seizure of a British tanker, and the emergency on the border, most of America missed the news that we all got a reprieve from a 100-foot-wide space rock. The rock in quest…