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 ...
How NASA and China Are Preparing To Blow Up Asteroids
With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...
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Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable
Did you ever go out with friends as a child and roam around the neighborhood, pretending to look for space rocks? Any time you found something that looked "out of the ordinary", you would come up with ...
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 ...
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'Just the tip of the iceberg': Why risky asteroids like 2024 YR4 will pester Earth for decades to come
The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...
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Chance of Asteroid Strike in 2032 Drops Sharply After Record-Setting Rise. Here’s Why It Keeps Changing
NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...
An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, NASA says. Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how scientists can deflect ‘city killer’ asteroid as NASA issues critical update
Legendary scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson has explained how NASA and other planetary defense bodies could deflect the potential ...
NASA video captures fresh look at 'city-destroying' asteroid - as the space agency updates the chance that it will strike Earth in 2032 yet AGAIN
NASA shared new ground-based telescope observations of the rock, which is estimated be about 130 to 300 feet (40 to 90 metres ...
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Asteroid hurtling toward Earth? Odds for impact increase once again
In early February, NASA announced that the asteroid’s chances of hitting our planet grew to 2.3%. And most recently, on Feb.
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Physicists tap Webb Telescope to track city-killer asteroid
Asteroids were responsible for extinction events hundreds of millions of years ago on Earth, providing no shortage of ...
Tiny Black Hole Will Be Too Much For Human Body, Study Reveals How Dangerous It Can Be
According to the study, asteroid-mass black holes (less than a micrometer across) will cause relatively minor damage locally ...