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The Return of 2024 YR4: The Asteroid Once Threatening Earth Now Poised for Close Call With the Moon in 2032
NASA has continuously been monitoring 2024 YR4 since it was first reported on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...
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NASA's James Webb Telescope shows 'city-killer' asteroid more likely to hit moon than Earth
A "city-killer" asteroid was found to have a greater chance of hitting the Moon than Earth, according to a new observation ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson predicts exact date when asteroid may destroy West Coast of US
Neil deGrasse Tyson has claimed an asteroid is heading towards Earth and could destroy the West Coast of America.
Could an asteroid hit the moon? Odds rise after NASA's Webb examines YR4. The projections
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...
Could an asteroid hit the moon? NASA says chances have risen
The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...
‘It would be spectacular’: Asteroid that was headed for earth may hit the moon instead
YR4 was one of the highest-risk asteroids identified in the last 25 years. There’s a 4.3 per cent chance it hits the moon.
NASA Raises Odds of Asteroid Smacking the Moon in 2032
YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...
This is the asteroid that could crash into the Moon in 2032 and leave a crater visible from Earth
By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...
An Asteroid That Was Once A Threat to Earth Could Hit the Moon In 2032, Says NASA
NASA said that Asteroid 2024 YR4, which last year created a buzz over the possibility that it might be a threat to Earth, ...
Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life
Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...
NASA Tracking Three Asteroids Approaching Earth
NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...
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NASA Plucked an Asteroid From Space. Now Researchers at the Field Will Probe It for Signs of the Origin of Life
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...