Scientific American5d
A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid YR4 might not hit Earth in 2032. But can it still be a threat?
YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...
NYU School of Law1dOpinion
How space law aims to regulate ‘space junk’ and protect earth
While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...
NASA’s $1.4 billion asteroid tracker to hunt ‘city-killer’ space rocks to save Earth from apocalypse
NASA's $1.4 billion NEO Surveyor space telescope is designed to spot and track potentially hazardous asteroids, offering ...
Vox24d
Humanity isn’t asteroid-proof yet. But we’re getting closer.
Project Icarus had already figured it out back in the 1960s: You don’t need to destroy an asteroid to protect the Earth — you just need to give it a slight nudge. Treat it like the eight ball ...
News Nation on MSN13d
NASA to launch spacecraft to track asteroids that threaten Earth
A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...
Salon29d
Why do the odds of asteroids hitting Earth keep fluctuating?
Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4 ... to 10 (will definitely hit Earth and destroy all life). Because the sky is so vast and our knowledge of it is so limited, the scale is not capable of doing ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation29d
Asteroid YR4
similar to the Tunguska asteroid. DAVID COWARD, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: This is classified as a "city-destroyer" which means that it would destroy any large city on earth. NAT ...
Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
NASA Tracking Car-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
Futurism4d
Killer Asteroid Will Miss Earth But Return for a Shot at Revenge
They're named after the absolutely enormous asteroid 887 Alinda, first discovered in 1918. At roughly 2.5 miles across, 887 Alinda would cause an extinction-level catastrophe if it struck Earth.