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When a space rock the size of a small building gets a little too close for comfort, scientists everywhere pay attention. In ...
This same asteroid, once regarded as the highest-impact threat to Earth ever recorded, is now shifting attention to our lunar ...
Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...
This near-miss was one of two close encounters ... passed at a safe distance of 4.1 million miles from Earth. Discovered in 2011, this asteroid was found to have a small moon orbiting it ...
Webb's final snapshot of asteroid 2024 YR4 fine-tuned its orbit—raising Moon impact odds slightly, but Earth is safe.
NASA’s asteroid-hunting Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope ... Most if not all dangerously sized asteroids will miss the planet. The hope is that, with these next-gen telescopes, the ...
MetaBallStudios / SWNS While there’s still a 96.2% chance the asteroid will miss the satellite completely ... according to experts at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...
The asteroid that had people fearful for their lives is now very unlikely to strike the planet,... but scientists reveal it ...
New observations of the “city killer” asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with the Earth indicate it will miss ...
YR₄ is unreachable of our instruments for now. According to the latest observation, an impact on the moon is somewhat more ...
NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.