Scientific American3d
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 ...
News Nation on MSN11d
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 ...
Humanity isn’t asteroid-proof yet. But we’re getting closer.
Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...
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 ...
Supernovas may have had a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation28d
Asteroid YR4
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. NAT KELLY, REPORTER: Oh, come on in. Quickly, quickly! You don't want to be out there. Don't you ...
The Sun29d
Horror space events that could kill us all from gamma-ray burst that ‘sterilises’ Earth to ‘unseen’ doomsday asteroid
SPACE is a deadly place – and we're all living at its mercy on a little blue rock. Thankfully we know that asteroid 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into us after all, but that's not the only space ...