Can the world relax about killer asteroids now?
For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter ...
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Scientists Struggle to Communicate with 2 Spacecraft Launched Wednesday
A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...
Is Asteroid 2024 YR4 going to impact Earth and how much damage would it cause? NASA has the answer
YR4 is between 40 and 90 meters in diameter, about the size of a large apartment block. The asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in ...
Neither an asteroid nor a satellite: this is the strange object never seen before that NASA is trying to decipher
There is a brutal curiosity on the part of human beings to know everything that happens beyond our planetary border, ...
Race To Design Atomic-Armed Rockets To Destroy Planet-Killer Asteroids
A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a near-zero chance of striking Earth. How many have hit Ohio?
NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth. Last week, the asteroid had a 3.1% probability of ...
House-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Tomorrow, NASA Reports
NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...
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5 Space Missions to Watch in March: Mars Gravity Assists and Astronaut Homecomings
Two Mars gravity assists are expected, and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally set to come home from an extended stay on the International Space Station. Here are five space ...
Astronomers see lower risk of newly found asteroid hitting Earth
New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...
NASA Confirms Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Not Hit Earth, Risk Reduced to Zero
NASA has confirmed asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses any risk to Earth, downgrading it to Torino Scale Level Zero.
Asteroid Alert: NASA Drops Impact Risk to Near Zero, But There’s One Small Catch
NASA has all but ruled out asteroid 2024 YR4 as a danger to Earth, reducing its impact probability to just 0.004% in 2032. However, a small risk remains for the Moon. Scientists are seizing the moment ...
A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector ...