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Newsweek on MSN · 1h

NASA Tracking Truck-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be some 26 feet across.

New Scientist · 16h

Building-sized asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for the first time

Chron on MSN · 13h

New asteroid has a chance of impacting Earth in 2032

The odds of a recently discovered massive asteroid hitting Earth within the next seven years are shockingly not zero. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the approximately 150-foot-wide asteroid was first spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Dec.

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New York Post on MSN · 17h

The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present in the early days of our solar system.

Oregonian · 19h

Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, these components could have seeded Earth’s initially barren landscape to produce a habitable world.

UPI News on MSN · 12h

NASA finds ‘key to life’ in Bennu asteroid samples

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

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Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

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Chilling graphic shows ‘Christmas asteroid’ the size of a football pitch on ‘possible’ trajectory to HIT Earth in 7yrs

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...

3don MSN

NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

Space on MSN6d

Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

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Exact date massive asteroid the size of London Eye could collide with Earth

NASA and other space agencies are keeping a close eye on the asteroid - which is estimated to be between 130ft and 330ft ...

19hon MSN

Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

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New Asteroid Tops NASA’s Impact Risk Chart, 1.2% Chance of 2032 Collision

The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking ...

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Giant 196-foot-wide killer asteroid could strike Earth in 2032, experts warn

A giant space rock is on a potential collision course with Earth in 2032. Dubbed 2024 YR4, this asteroid poses a small but ...

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