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World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...
A new study published on arXiv suggests a potentially catastrophic scenario for Earth’s satellites and space infrastructure ...
Astronomers have upped the odds that the cosmic boulder will crash into the moon, which could potentially cause a cloud of ...
YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...
Planetary scientist Professor Dante Lauretta is the leader of NASA's OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect a sample ...
Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...
After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...
There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, NASA reports. Astronomers all over the world are watching the asteroid, trying to narrow down its future path. The risk will likely ...
The asteroid 2024 YR4 is now rated at Level 0 out of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, meaning, "The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero.". A similar ...
According to NASA’s JPL tracking, 2020 XR will cross through Earth’s orbit Wednesday and then head out toward Mars’ orbit.After crossing Mars’ path in February 2025, the asteroid will ...