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The Asteroid That Was Predicted to Hit Earth: See It in a New Image
A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...
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Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit ... for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with an asteroid earlier this month. A day after the astronomers with ...
‘God Of Chaos’ Asteroid: It’s Exactly Four Years Until The Rarest Space Event Of Our Lives
On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...
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City-killer asteroid chances of hitting Moon increase slightly
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA has raised the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving object roughly the size ...
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by tracking meteorites as they blazed ...
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Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
An asteroid is headed toward a close approach to Earth on December 22, 2032. But fear not, the Webb Space Telescope just re-confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a nearly 0% probability of crashing ...
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Elon Musk says SpaceX is aiming to launch a Starship orbital flight as soon as January, although that hinges on everything going according to plan. On the web, you can now choose when you want it to ...