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Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032

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

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

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An asteroid has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here’s how astronomers are tracking it

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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