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 ...
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, ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists search for elusive dark matter throughout the universe
Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
One piece of good news is that 2024 YR4 will miss in 2032, but by coming close it will be kicked out of its Alinda orbit. It ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 May Miss Earth in 2032, But It’s Not Gone for Good
In a cosmic twist of fate, scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid previously thought to pose ...
The Mirror14d
'I had to choke back the tears - after a lifetime of near misses, Newcastle United won our first domestic trophy since 1955'
So this is what it feels like. After a lifetime of near misses, and 70 years of hurt since our last domestic trophy, I must admit that I had to choke back the emotions as the second goal went in.
Spinning through space: The astronomers watching the skies for asteroids
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...
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NTSB ‘concerned’ over 15,000 near-misses between helicopters and planes a DC airport in just 3 years before crash that killed 67
The National Transportation Safety Board uncovered more than 15,000 “near-miss events” between helicopters and jets at Reagan National airport in just three years leading up to the American ...
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In Years Before Deadly D.C. Plane Crash, There Were Over 15K Close Encounters at Airport: NTSB
There were over 15,200 near-miss events at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport between October 2021 and December 2024, the agency said NTSB (2) The National Transportation Safety Board has ...
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Terrifying Toll of Near Misses Before D.C. Plane Crash That Killed 67
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How are oil spills contained? Scientists reveal how floating barriers, chemicals, and even giant SPONGES can be used - after a tanker bursts into flames off the Yorkshire coast
A growing oil spill in the Humber Estuary has sparked concerns of an environmental disaster after an oil tanker and cargo ship crashed off the Yorkshire coast. At least 36 people have been rescued ...