Newfound 'city-killer' asteroid has chance of hitting Earth in 2032
On December 22, 3032, asteroid 2024 YR4 could pass by safely, coming no closer to us than 1.7 million kilometres, or over 4 times the distance to the Moon. On the other hand, there is a small, but non-zero chance that it could strike the planet instead!
A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...
Asteroid 2021 CZ2 was discovered and recorded in early 2021, resulting in its designated name. Hence, scientists are well-familiar with this object. The Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre ...
The asteroid 4660 Nereus is technically considered “potentially hazardous” due to its size and proximity to Earth, but those characteristics also make it one of the best potential targets for ...
Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...
The planet that the asteroid was once a part of contained a salty ocean. Scientists found 11 minerals in the samples, but more importantly, they found 14 out of 20 key building blocks for life -- at ...
Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...
NASA’s original Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission launched in 2021. It had a science fiction concept: to crash into an asteroid to see if it could alter the path of a space rock.
In December 2020, Hayabusa 2, an asteroid explorer operated by the Japan ... JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 that it would distribute those samples to research institutions across ...
Avi Loeb shares the story of how a Tesla Roadster had some astronomers convinced for a time that they had discovered a new ...
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