Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
Asteroid impact threat estimates improved for the Earth and the moon
YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...
Scientists excited about the possible collision of asteroid 2024 YR4 with the Moon: “Hopefully it will have an impact”
YR4 was classified in February at Level 3 on the Torino Scale prompting the UN to activate the Planetary Security Protocol ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
Lucy will fly past the three-mile-wide (five-kilometer-wide) asteroid on April 20, but the trip mostly serves as a ...
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Asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032 now may slam into Moon instead
The asteroid space scientists feared would hit Earth may now smash into the Moon instead. Space rock 2024 YR4 was originally calculated to have a 3.1% probability of impacting our planet on December ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4, which threatened to hit Earth, could collide with the Moon
A new observation estimates that the space rock measures 60 meters and has a 2% chance of impacting the satellite ...
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How "asteroid detectives" are protecting Earth from potentially dangerous impacts: "Find them before they find you"
Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...
NASA warns about another massive asteroid, double the size of Taj Mahal, hurtling towards earth at 77,282 km/h speed
NASA has announced that the 540-foot-wide asteroid 2014 TN17 will pass Earth on March 26, 2025. Despite the pass being 5 ...
‘Asteroid Bennu’s mystery’: Could it hold the missing link to Earth’s first life?
Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...
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The creation of life: Asteroid Bennu samples bring new insight into the age-old question
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar system. These findings can now provide information into the potential origins of ...