Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
Hunt for 25,000 hidden asteroids as scientist reveals how we’d stop a dangerous city-killer rock hurtling towards Earth
NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.
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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 ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...
Are we on the verge of mining metals from the asteroids above Earth?
As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...
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‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods forever. via REUTERS We could experience a rock market crash. Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth ...
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Asteroid Mining Gives Companies Hope in the Search for Rare Metals
California-based company AstroForge, also throwing its hat in the ring, launched its Odin spacecraft as a payload of the IM-2 ...
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Terrifying 'city-killer' asteroid to fly dangerously close to Earth this week
A colossal asteroid, known as 2014 TN17, is set to make a chillingly close pass by Earth this week, marking the nearest approach in over 100 years. This massive space rock, measuring an estimated ...
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AstroForge Still Confident It Will Mine Asteroids After 2 Major Failures
Despite losing both of its spacecraft, the startup is preparing for its $55 million Mission 3, which will launch next year.
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 ...
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Hunt for 25,000 hidden asteroids as scientist reveals how we’d stop a dangerous city-killer rock hurtling towards Earth
"A change of a millimeter per second over decades will add up to thousands of kilometers, and that can be enough to make the asteroid miss the Earth entirely." Back in 2022, Nasa was able to ...