The sneaky asteroid is from the Apollo cluster, a group of near-Earth asteroids that can occasionally get pretty close to us. It sped past at a break-neck 46,700 miles per hour, while it's believed to ...
The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at ...
Tianwen 2 will collect samples and deliver them back to Earth in late 2027, using a reentry capsule. Then the spacecraft will ...
A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...
The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...
If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, should it be deflected or blown up? A paper from NASA scientists and ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear devices at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the ...
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NASA scientists are tracking a bus-sized asteroid making its close approach toward Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will make a close approach to Earth today, confirming there is no threat to the planet.
According to NASA, “Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space agency expects to make further observations when the asteroid’s orbit ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...
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