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World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...
Scientists with NASA's Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft's April 20 encounter with the ...
NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...
YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...
"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...
A surprising discovery in a sample from the Ryugu asteroid is challenging what scientists thought they knew about primitive ...
Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...
There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...
"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...
Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...
Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...