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An airplane-sized asteroid is heading close to Earth — NASA details its trajectory
According to NASA, an asteroid is labelled "potentially hazardous" based on a combination of factors: its size and how close its orbit comes to Earth. Asteroids measuring 492 feet or beyond approaching the planet within 4.
Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.
The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.
A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent announcement marks a significant milestone in the detection of
Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early solar system. Researches have also found a mysterious ‘gum-like’ substance on the sample,
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the threat once posed by the infamous Apophis. While YR4 still has a nearly 97% chance to completely miss Earth in 2032, its odds of impact ...
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From a Remote Observatory, He’s Defending Our Planet. Get a Glimpse Inside the Life of a Doomsday Asteroid Hunter
David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space rocks. Here’s what he has to say about that “high consequence” work, an in
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Asteroid belt — What it is, where it is and how it formed
A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth itself — were made.
An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% probability of slamming into Earth in 2032. And yes ...
The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.
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