An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here’s What That Means
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
NASA Just Doubled the Odds of an Asteroid Impact – Should We Worry?
YR4 now has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, prompting ongoing observations. Ground-based telescopes will track it ...
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Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth go up as Webb telescope is tasked with studying potential "city-killer"
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ... Level 3 rating, out of 10, on ...
'It was so simple': How Antarctica's missing meteorites were discovered using a block of ice, a freezer and a lamp
"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the ...
How Morocco Became the Meteorite Hunting Capital of the World
Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...
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Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth went up. Scientists aren't surprised.
An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ... Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter.
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Newly discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher risk of hitting Earth
A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the ... If 2024 YR4 disappears from view before space agencies can entirely rule out any chance of impact, the space rock will remain on the ...
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Expert says spacecraft could deflect asteroid that has 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA ... experts from NASA and the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN). In an IAWN report that came out late last month, the probability of the ...
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Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid ... back out to the asteroid belt. It will be visible only for a few months before it vanishes into the darkness of space.