NASA Earth Observatory

Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032

Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?

That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our planet. Cosmic bookmakers don’t make an impact terribly likely. According to NASA, the odds of a collision are just 2.3%. But that nearly doubles the 1.

The Atlantic · 2d

So About That Asteroid That Could Hit Earth ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

Tennessean · 12h

Is there an asteroid heading towards Earth? Where will it hit? What to know about the 2024 YR4 asteroid

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

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NASA successfully joins sunshade to Roman Observatory's 'exoskeleton'

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's deployable aperture cover—a ...

CBS News1d

An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, NASA says. Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile ... dedicated to studying near-Earth objects for NASA.

LISA: What the Revolutionary Gravitational Wave Observatory Will Actually See

LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...

Space on MSN9d

NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse'

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

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NASA telescopes deliver stellar bouquet in time for Valentine's day

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

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