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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it—and others—will keep coming back
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
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NASA warning: Massive asteroid twice the size of the Taj Mahal hurtling toward Earth at 77,282 km/h
Asteroid 2014 TN17, a massive 540-foot space rock, will safely pass Earth at a distance of 5 million kilometers on March 26, 2025. However, its potentially hazardous designation stresses the ...
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NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes ... rocks due to hurtle past the Earth this week are also significantly larger than "2025 DU25," with the largest being approximately 540 ...
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Supernovas may have played a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that ... according to scientific evidence. A city-size asteroid slammed into Earth off the coast of what’s now ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation triggered a fervid series of observations of the object — possibly as big as a ...
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Supernovas may have had a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that ... according to scientific evidence. A city-size asteroid slammed into Earth off the coast of what’s now ...