James Webb telescope takes emergency look at 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 ahead of close encounter in 2032
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...
NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids
NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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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 ...
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Have Rachel Reeves's cuts gone too far? The i Paper writers give their verdict
Reeves didn’t want to be in this position. She’s been forced into finding spending cuts to make up the shortfall after ruling ...
Are we on the verge of mining metals from the asteroids above Earth?
As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...