What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
'City killer' asteroid could hit Earth - where it could it land and the damage it may cause
This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.
Asteroid Ryugu samples suggest presence of salty water in outer solar system
Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.
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How do astronomers track asteroids that could threaten Earth?
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
SpaceX rocket launch spawns dazzling 'space jellyfish' in evening sky (photos)
The Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, took flight during evening twilight, when light from ...
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Super Bowl 2025: OpenAI, Google, Meta ads show future that’s more fiction than fact
New Super Bowl commercials take AI from a hidden force to an everyday tool, yet the shortcomings and inconsistencies were hard to ignore.
How space missions make discoveries on the way to their main destinations
To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...
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Life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu
By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...