Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson warns about ‘mansion-sized asteroid’ that could hit Earth in 2032
At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might ...
Ex-astronaut shares chilling details about 'city-killer' asteroid
A former astronaut has revealed terrifying new details about Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 'city-killer' space rock that with a chance ...
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Students Had Known Their Math Teacher as Uncompromising Man until They Saw Another Part of His Life
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This Newly Discovered Asteroid Could Impact Earth. Here's What to Know
It's not great news, but you still shouldn't panic about it: Astronomers spotted a near-Earth asteroid that has a roughly 1% ...
Odds of asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 went up, but as expected: What to know about YR4
Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.
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How do astronomers track asteroids that could threaten Earth?
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...
An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
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Earth's mini-moon was the moon all along
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We don’t want ‘a world free of nuclear weapons’. We need them for asteroid defence
In 2022, Nasa carried out a mission known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or Dart. In this, a spacecraft was deliberately crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, which is bigger than 2024 YR4, ...
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Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in October 2020 from the asteroid ... of beads is the largest documented ...
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Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock ... The collection of beads is the largest documented worldwide and would have taken 10 people working eight hours a day ...