The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are shifting, with the space rock now carrying a 1-in-48 chance of collision.
CV will pass Earth at a distance of 4,760,000 km, over five times the Earth-Moon distance. Three other asteroids passed by ...
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NASA is keeping a close eye on three giant asteroids that are set to make close approaches to Earth today. One of them will come within just 77,200 miles of our planet, which is roughly one-third ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
Languages: English. NASA is tracking a trio of vehicle-sized asteroids set to whizz by close to the Earth today—with one getting three times nearer than the orbit of the moon. That space rock ...
The telescope is one of the asteroid discovery programs funded by NASA to scan the sky in search of near-Earth asteroids, said Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer at JPL and CNEOS, via email.
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
What is the 'alien' that has been found near the South Pole? NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just ...
(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...
NASA has identified thousands of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), most of which are larger than half a mile wide. Here are the five asteroids that pose the greatest risk to Earth. An asteroid named ...