New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...
Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
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NASA: Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here’s What That Means
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid is hurtling around Earth — and scientists are warning of its potential impact
An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...
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Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth: What we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
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Football field-sized asteroid with 1.6% chance of hitting Earth could destroy a city
Scientists have newly discovered an asteroid, around 130 to 300 meters wide, that has greater than 1% chance of impacting the Earth.
Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032
NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.
Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...
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A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth — how worried should we be?
It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years ...