Expert shares key facts about asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
NASA Tracking Car-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today
The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...
NASA Makes Big Update to Asteroid Potentially on Collision Course With Earth in 2032
The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 now unlikely to hit Earth — but scientists are ready for future threats
Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.
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The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth has gone down since yesterday
In December last year, NASA spied an asteroid, named 2024 YR4, some tens of thousands of miles away in orbit which, although ...
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Devastating images capture what would happen to Earth if 2032 asteroid with impact energy of 8 megatons of TNT hit
YR4 is currently being monitored by NASA and the European Space Agency, with the space rock potentially set to strike Earth ...
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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 that could be as big as a football field as ...
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Chance of 2032 asteroid strike have increased. Why scientists say not to worry
Astronomers say a newly discovered 196-foot asteroid has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according reporting from Space.com. The near-earth object was discovered in 2024 and has stirred ...
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Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth.
The approach, which is closer than telecommunications satellites, will mark the closest any large asteroid has ever come to Earth, according to the ESA. An art visualization shows how the European ...
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Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth.
The approach, which is closer than telecommunications satellites, will mark the closest any large asteroid has ever come to Earth, according to the ESA. NASA, ESA prepare to send spacecraft to ...