Nasa and China brace for ‘city-killer’ asteroid: Will Earth be ready?
A massive asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, has captured global attention as both Nasa and China scramble to assess and counter the ...
How NASA and China Are Preparing To Blow Up Asteroids
With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...
NASA’s New Asteroid Data Changes Everything – And the Moon Might Pay the Price
YR4 is a recently discovered near-Earth object (NEO) currently being closely monitored by NASA’s planetary defense teams.
Why the chance that an asteroid might hit Earth in 2032 keeps changing
An asteroid between 130 and 300 feet wide has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — but the precise odds have been a ...
Asteroid hurtling toward Earth? Odds for impact increase once again
The odds that a potentially destructive asteroid will collide with Earth in 2032 have increased once again, NASA says, but ...
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Asteroid's Earth Impact Odds Plummet, Scientists Now Playing the Long Wait Game
Latest observations slash collision probability for asteroid 2024 YR4 from 2.8% to 0.16%, but no further updates are possible until 2028.
You’re going to see more ‘city-killer’ asteroids, but fret not: MIT astronomer
This week’s hype around a “city-killing” asteroid possibly striking Earth raised the fears of many before the odds of impact dropped to nearly nothing, but the MIT scientist who ...
The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about
Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.
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NASA downgrades the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 to below 1%
NASA astronomers have been continuing to monitor the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4. The initial calculations suggested a 1.3% probability of an Earth impact event, which temporarily increased to 3.1 ...