NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...
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The creation of life: Asteroid Bennu samples bring new insight into the age-old question
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
Humanity isn’t asteroid-proof yet. But we’re getting closer.
Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...
Odds of asteroid YR4 2024 hitting Earth in 2032 go up, then down again, in latest NASA analysis
YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
Pallas family asteroids reveal unique blue spectroscopic profiles
Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
2024 YR4 isn't the largest asteroid out there ... estimated to be about 6.2 miles in diameter and marked the last known large asteroid to hit our world. But smaller asteroids can cause regional ...
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Asteroid Tag
Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.
World’s oldest-known meteor crater discovered in Australia is 3.5BILLION years old and was once 60miles wide
THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.
Will an asteroid hit Earth? Likely not. NASA gives 'all clear' as odds fall to near zero
The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...
How "asteroid detectives" protect Earth from potential impacts
NASA was recently tracking a large asteroid, known as the "city killer," after finding a small chance of it hitting Earth in ...
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The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about
A large asteroid known as 2024 YR4 has grabbed headlines this week as scientists ... to understand that it was not going to hit Earth. But he says there was one big difference with YR4. "We didn't ...