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The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations. While a moon impact wouldn't significantly alter ...
There's only one Friday the 13th in 2025. That's good news for people who think it's bad luck. Why the fear? What to know ...
An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash ...
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...
Even though the asteroid is relatively small, a collision with Earth could still cause significant devastation – especially ...
If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news cycle, it's time to catch up on your rest. The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in ...
An asteroid streaking ... these objects from Earth,” the authors wrote in their conclusion. It would be bad news if one of these intergalactic gravelstones hit home. Asteroids 2020 SB, 524522 ...
On 13 April 2029 Apophis will be visible from Earth with the naked eye. But observing it up close, from just 31,000 km away, will be instruments and algorithms created at the Politecnico di Milano.
Asteroid 2025 KF is estimated to have a diameter ranging between 32 and 75 feet (10 - 23 meters), making it approximately the size of a house. Even if 2025 KF were to hit Earth, its small size ...
The researchers estimated that the asteroid was between one hundred and three hundred feet in diameter, and if it hit Earth, it would release as much energy as a ten-megaton nuclear bomb.
Most of Thursday's conversation surrounded the agency's highly anticipated Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which should greatly improve hazardous asteroid detection capabilities as a whole.