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Many space objects remain undiscovered and some of them pose a threat to the Earth. Astrophysicist Victor Teifel says it is time to build a special station for detection of asteroids in Kazakhstan.

• 15 декабря 2014, 13:11

The US space agency's program to detect and protect the Earth from incoming asteroids is poorly managed and far behind schedule.

• 16 сентября 2014, 12:08

Japanese space scientists have unveiled the asteroid hunting space probe they hope to launch later this year on a mission to mine a celestial body.

• 02 сентября 2014, 16:04

Scientists have discovered a massive 200-kilometre (124-mile) impact zone in the Australian outback they believe was caused by an asteroid which smashed into Earth more than 300 million years ago.

• 20 февраля 2013, 13:46

NASA, universities and private groups in the US are working on asteroid warning systems that can detect objects from space like the one that struck Russia last week with a blinding flash and mighty boom.

• 19 февраля 2013, 16:59

A closely tracked asteroid, about 150-feet (45-meters) wide, whizzed safely past Earth on Friday, the same day a much smaller, previously undetected meteor hit Russia.

• 17 февраля 2013, 14:05

NASA is keeping close tabs on a sizable asteroid set to whiz past our planet Friday in what the US space agency says is the closest flyby ever predicted for such a large object.

• 15 февраля 2013, 18:00

Scientists said Thursday they are a step closer to proving the death blow for dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a gigantic comet or asteroid that struck near Mexico.

• 09 февраля 2013, 10:23

Hold on to your hats: an asteroid will zoom within spitting distance of Earth next week, in what NASA said Thursday is the closest flyby ever predicted for an object this large.

• 08 февраля 2013, 13:32

Trips to craters located close to Ust-Kamenogorsk are becoming popular with foreign tourists.

• 14 мая 2011, 12:35