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A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to survive a mass extinction, your best bet might be to carve out a truly unique ...
The latest probability of impact for asteroid 2024 YR4, as of June 3, 2025, at 4.3 per cent of striking the Moon on December 22, 2032. Along the top of the image is NASA's sequence of plots generated ...
While Earthlings may be safe, our latest glance of the asteroid in May, courtesy of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, led ...
NASA has issued a disturbing update on the 'city destroying' asteroid that could hit the moon in some seven years.
An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash ...
"Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to be observed with space-based or ground-based telescopes," NASA added in a statement ...
Tianwen-2 could help nab Kamo'oalewa's origins once and for all. After spending several months orbiting and observing the ...
A 2024 study on the National Land Cover Database (which is based on Landsat observations) has found that tornado damage to forests in the southeastern U.S. is on the rise, despite a slight decrease in ...
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that asteroid 2024 YR4, initially a potential threat to Earth, now ...
The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...
After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...
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