Astronomers are closely monitoring a newly discovered asteroid with a slightly increased chance of hitting Earth
A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.
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Is a Big Asteroid Going to Hit Earth in 2032?
No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this ...
Huge Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2032. Here's How We Could Stop It
Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.
A "city-killer" asteroid has a slim chance to crash into Earth. Here's what to know.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
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How Can We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth?
Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...
An asteroid could collide with Earth: What could happen if it hits, and should we worry?
An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...
An object left a big gash on Mars. It also spawned a quake.
The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...
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Unforgettable Moments Chasing the Northern Lights in Norway
Stuffed porpoise stomachs and blood custard for the rich, pickled carrots for the poor, and ale for all. Europeans in the ...
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Video Captures Underwater Volcano Spewing Mud And Methane In The Barents Sea
Scientists on the AKMA3 ocean expedition discovered an exceptional underwater feature consisting of a mud volcano in the ...
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Nasa Asteroid
12 students and two teachers from Dyal Singh Public School in Karnal have been honoured by NASA’s International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) for discovering a main belt asteroid ...
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That’s not a meteor shower, that was a Starship.
SpaceX noted that for this seventh Starship flight test, “a significant number of tiles will be removed to stress-test vulnerable areas across the vehicle.” A weekly newsletter by David Pierce ...
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NASA Tracking Washington Monument-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
none of them are likely to hit our planet any time soon. "The 'potentially hazardous' designation simply means over many centuries and millennia the asteroid's orbit may evolve into one that has a ...