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NASA has confirmed asteroid 2025 MM is approaching. The asteroid measures nearly 120 feet across—about the size of a small ...
“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...
Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and would easily take out a major city, causing cataclysmic disaster that ...
World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
I knew that the engineering team leaned toward an overabundance of caution: They didn’t want the asteroid’s rugged surface to jeopardize ... after a sample of Bennu had been transported to Earth. NASA ...
Currently, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is too far away to observe with space or ground-based telescopes. NASA expects to make more ...
NASA says the 10-storey YR4 asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, which could see global communications come to a complete ...
The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...
Armageddon may be a fun popcorn blockbuster, but the Michael Bay movie is also filled with plenty of errors that NASA experts ...
YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...
Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...
As Asteroid Day marks its 10th anniversary, U.S. Senators Kelly and Cornyn introduce a resolution to establish National Asteroid Day.