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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An Asteroid Won’t Destroy Life on Earth in 2032, but It Will Eventually
It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...
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Space agency chief warns city-destroying asteroid could be hurtling towards earth now and we have 'no way to detect it'
A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is going to miss Earth, but the story doesn’t end there
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...
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This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its ... Observatories all over the world contribute to finding near-Earth objects. And both NASA and the European Space Agency ...
NASA Warns Of BIG 110-ft Aeroplane-Sized Asteroid Rushing Towards Earth This Week, Check All The Details Here
A BIG asteroid, roughly the size of an aeroplane, is hurtling towards Earth. NASA is tracking its trajectory closely., ...
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NASA Gives ‘All Clear’ for Asteroid That Seemed to Threaten Earth
The agency is continuing to monitor the asteroid from observatories around the world, including with the ... Telescope in the Canary Islands. By the end of April, 2024 YR4 will be hidden from ...
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Why we should get used to being worried about asteroids crashing into Earth
The world wasn’t in need of another reason to panic, but asteroid 2024 YR4 gave them one anyway. It was first spotted at the end of last year, and in the days that followed it went from minor ...
Astronomers see lower risk of newly found asteroid hitting Earth
New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...
Scientists Found 52-Foot-Tall Underground Ripples From the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...
Scientists find a new titanosaur dinosaur species in Patagonia
The new Argentine dino might give us clues to what the world was like before the asteroid wiped out their kind.