A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth—how worried should we be?
A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...
NASA spotted a big asteroid that may hit Earth — what you should know
It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...
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Newfound Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2032, Scientists Say
The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...
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Astronomers Discover an Asteroid With a 1.6 Percent Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here's Why You Shouldn't Panic
NASA has identified an asteroid with a more than 1 percent chance of striking Earth in December 2032, per a statement ...
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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
What we know about 300ft asteroid that has a chance of crashing into Earth
A freshly spotted asteroid that is up to 300ft wide detected by an automated telescope in December has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, scientists have said. The asteroid has been designated ...
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Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth
Jan. 29, 2025 You may hear about a large asteroid headed toward Earth ... extremely faint as it travels away from Earth, meaning most telescopes are going to struggle to track it.
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Asteroid has one in 83 chance of hitting earth in 2032, astronomers say
The asteroid ... earth, per the science publication. “Such an impact could cause an explosion in the atmosphere, called an ‘airburst,’ or could cause an impact crater when it slams into ...
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U of R professor part of NASA team that discovered building blocks of life on asteroid
Discoveries from an asteroid that contain the building blocks of life are making waves in the scientific community, and one ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ... providing a window into understanding what ...
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Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say
24, 2023, we got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth. To learn about an asteroid ... array of techniques to go through the returned ...
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A rookie astronomer thought Musk’s space-going “Starman” was a new asteroid
In 2018, it was a big deal that Elon Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space. Behind the wheel is “Starman,” a ...