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"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...
Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally ...
Astronomers have revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a 50/50 chance of colliding with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda ...
NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of hitting ... is usually temporary. The data gathering and probability calculation process worked ...
NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...
An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance ... 19, new data collected overnight reduced the impact probability ...
NASA decreased the probability of the asteroid impacting Earth to 1.5%, the same as a 98.5% chance of no impact. "As more data are being acquired daily, the impact probability is subject to ...
An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting ... expect that the probability will more than likely fall to zero as more observations and data about its flight ...
In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability ... percent chance of a miss from this asteroid," said asteroid hunter David Rankin, who first "pre-covered" 2024 YR4 in data from ...