Space.com on MSN10h
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 ...
National Geographic news25d
This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after ... that the rock could hit the moon.) The detection shows that the system for defending Earth from lethal space rocks works ...
Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...
Forbes21d
Designing Nuclear-Armed Rockets To Destroy Doomsday Asteroids
What Leaders Around the World Should Know—and What They Can Do—If an Asteroid or Comet Threatens to Hit Earth” that he drafted for the International Academy of Astronautics’ latest ...
Metro1mon
Chilling video shows what might happen if asteroid hits Earth in 2032
(Picture: MetaBallStudios/SWNS) If it were to hit Earth, the energy released would ... commander Chris Hadfield has now predicted the new comet could produce a crater, rather than break apart ...
What are the chances an asteroid will impact Earth in 2032?
February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.