NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids
NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...
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Killer Asteroid Will Miss Earth But Return for a Shot at Revenge
Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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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 ...
‘Surprised’ scientists capture what sharks sound like for the first time ever: audio
Oceanic researchers proved that “Jaws” isn’t the silent killer it’s depicted as after recording shark noises for the first ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
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 ...
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Tucson astronomer: Media frenzy about unlikely asteroid impact created real fear
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
NASA Tracking Airplane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...
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William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...
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Extinction asteroid's impact on Earth laid bare as new map outlines 'mega ripples' on seafloor
The space agency had previously feared the chance of a collision with Earth could reach 20 per cent by April. Scientists now believe that the rock will sail past our planet with 167,000 miles to spare ...