Asteroid with small chance to hit Earth in 2032 upgraded to level three on Torino Impact Hazard Scale
YR4 has just over a 2% chance of hitting Earth, according to NASA, but experts say there's no need to panic yet.
Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
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Good News About Potential Upcoming Asteroid Colliding with Earth: We’ve Deflected Them Before and Can Do So Again
YR4 should remain hovering around 1%, should humanity choose to, we have already proven we can nudge asteroids out of our way ...
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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
Tesla Shot To Mars Was Warning About Elon Musk’s Irresponsibility, Says Space Law Expert
Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth ...
Astronomers thought Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster was an asteroid. It points to broader problems tracking objects in deep space
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.
Dwarf planet Ceres may have received organic material from space objects
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
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Life's 'basic building blocks' found in asteroid samples
Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic ... Some of the minerals include compounds ...