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NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.
Elio,’ Pixar’s new movie about a boy who wants to be abducted by aliens, has its roots in a true story about one of its directors.
Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it ...
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This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...
The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth is no longer a threat ... If the asteroid hit the moon in 2032, it could potentially throw debris into surrounding space ...
The odds that the recently discovered asteroid will hit Earth on December 22 ... an asteroid—as depicted in the 1998 sci-fi action movie "Armageddon"—this would likely involving detonating ...
An asteroid ... can’t just hit it with a colossal spacecraft, because you may fragment it into several still-dangerously sized pieces. Hit it too softly, and it will still hit Earth, but ...
2024 YR4 has now fallen from the riskiest asteroid ... not hit the Earth.” That could leave astronomers with only the option of disruption — breaking it into smaller pieces. And while movies ...
The chances that an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, could hit Earth in seven years have fluctuated recently, but experts aren’t preparing for the worst yet. At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded ...