NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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NASA lab on watch for killer asteroids
To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in may be our best hope. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
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Woo! Science: Asteroids, satellites and a sneaky solar eclipse are what's 'up'
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...
Scientists Followed 75 Meteorites and Mapped the Asteroid Belt’s Violent Origins
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
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What Makes a Moon?
Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...
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NASA Warns Of Massive 110-Ft Airplane-Sized Asteroid Heading Toward Earth At 77,282 km/h This Week – Should We Be Worried?
NASA has issued an alert about a massive asteroid approaching Earth this week. The US space agency has identified Asteroid ...