Chance huge asteroid will hit Earth down to 0.001 per cent
The European Space Agency (ESA) has reduced the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 to 0.001 per cent, ...
The city-killer asteroid’s chances of striking Earth just dropped to zero
The latest city-killer asteroid updates suggest Asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss Earth entirely, leading astronomers to breathe a ...
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New asteroid has a chance of impacting Earth in 2032
Scientists have said it's most likely that the asteroid will not hit Earth. Richard Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, inventor of the Torino scale, told EarthSky: "In all ...
NASA announces SpaceX will launch NEO Surveyor to track killer asteroids
NASA announced the NEO Surveyor mission, which aims to detect and track asteroids that could pose a catastrophic threat to our planet.
Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...
AstroForge: Earth's first asteroid mining prospector heads to launchpad
A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...
US space mining company to target mineral-rich asteroid this week
A US-based private aerospace company is aiming to commercially mine an asteroid later this week using a microwave-sized ...
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NASA And China Prepares To Track THIS ‘City Killer’ Asteroid —Will Earth Be Ready For 2032 Threat?
Last year on the day of Christmas, a football sized asteroid passed close to the earth. It was around double the distance ...
Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
Astronomers Explain NASA's 2032 Asteroid Projections
Could an asteroid hit Earth in 2032? NASA says there's a chance, but the odds keep changing. We asked two experts to break it ...
City-killer asteroid heading towards Earth caught on film
An asteroid which has a one in 32 chance of hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a city has been caught on camera.
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UVA Astronomer Explains the Threat of ‘City Killer’ Asteroids and How Earth Can Prepare
NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...