Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
NASA Tracking Car-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
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Solving the climate equation
Most people worry about climate change, but few know what to do. The right tools allow us to convert scientific urgency into ...
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 ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
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 ...
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Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
War in Space is coming. Satellites will be armed with lasers and the MOON will be invaded. Sound far-fetched? The world's superpowers are already preparing for this …
It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...
Born on a boat: Florida boy reunites with first responders who delivered him
Aiden Easterday was born nearly five years ago, out on a boat in the middle of a storm. On Wednesday, he got to reunite with first responders who were there for his incredible arrival. Easterday ...
‘Asteroid Bennu’s mystery’: Could it hold the missing link to Earth’s first life?
Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...