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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Dodging Doomsday: NASA’s $1.4 billion telescope will hunt city-killing asteroids, prevent Earth’s next big bang
Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it—and others—will keep coming back
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
Dodging dinosaurs’ fate: NASA’s $1.4B asteroid hunter will launch in 2027 to track city-killing space rocks
Ground telescopes have offered our best asteroid data so far, but spotting dark, tumbling rocks from Earth is like finding ...
NASA’s $1.4 billion asteroid tracker to hunt ‘city-killer’ space rocks to save Earth from apocalypse
NASA's $1.4 billion NEO Surveyor space telescope is designed to spot and track potentially hazardous asteroids, offering ...
Phys.org4d
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it—and others—will keep coming back
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 ... of the object—possibly as big as a football field—to determine that it will not hit. However, an impact on the moon cannot be ruled ...
Worcester Magazine2d
Woo! Science: Asteroids, satellites and a sneaky solar eclipse are what's 'up'
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
The Conversation5d
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
Read more: What are the chances an asteroid will impact Earth in 2032 ... Although Earth is a small target in a big solar system, it does get hit. If 2024 YR4 managed to sneak up on us in 2024 ...
Ben Stiller drops big update on Severance season 3: How long will fans have to wait?
Apple TV+ thriller Severance will not repeat the three-year wait between seasons. Producer Ben Stiller confirmed that the ...
Arizona Daily Star2d
Tucson astronomer: Media frenzy about unlikely asteroid impact created real fear
“That’s always been a really big concern ... Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) at one of their telescopes in Chile.