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When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
The brilliant flash, which was accompanied by a sonic boom that many mistook for an earthquake, resulted in hundreds of calls ...
NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...
Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.
NASA says the 10-storey YR4 asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, which could see global communications come to a complete ...
YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.
The National Weather Service said fireballs were spotted across the Southeast, including Charleston, South Carolina, a day ...
The Tellus Science Museum announced last week that it acquired a piece of the meteorite, which created a visible fireball ...