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Newly Discovered Asteroid Has Over 1% Chance Of Earth Impact
NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...
An asteroid with a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032 is triggering planetary defense planning
YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...
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Fighting Ghosts: Passive Integrated Air Defenses
An MQ-9 Reaper drifts ominously through the crisp, pre-dawn sky over Sanaa, Yemen. Its matte-gray fuselage blends seamlessly ...
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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the ...
NASA asteroid alert: Three asteroids passing Earth today—one flying closer than the Moon
NASA warns of three asteroids, including a bus-sized space rock, passing close to Earth on January 30, 2025. Find out their ...
Newly spotted asteroid has small chance of hitting Earth in 2032
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking into Earth in 2032, space agency officials have said. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%. “We are not worried at all ...
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Scientists Say If We're Extremely Lucky, This Asteroid May Put Us Out of Our Misery
Astronomers have spotted a space rock an estimated 200 feet in length that they say could soon be headed for Earth. As the ...
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NASA’s Historic Asteroid Sample Uncovers Stunning Clues About the Origins of Life!
In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has uncovered organic compounds and complex carbon molecules in samples collected from asteroid Bennu, marking a major milestone in the search ...