There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032
There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon, creating a new crater and an explosion that might ...
NASA scientist warns full list of countries 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit in 2032
After asteroid 2024 YR4 first flew into view of NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in December 2024 ...
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Bennu isn’t likely to hit Earth — but if it did, here’s what would happen
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...
Scientists' verdict on 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 as experts warn 'hope for the best'
The asteroid, discovered in December 2024, is believed to measure between 40 metres and 90 metres. It was first given a ...
The Truth About Asteroid 2024 YR4 And Why You Shouldn’t Worry (Yet)
YR4: everything to know about the potential "city killer" space rock that has a 2.3% chance of striking Earth on Dec. 22, ...
Study models asteroid collision’s potentially devastating impact
A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...
NASA: 1.6% chance newly discovered asteroid will impact Earth in 2032
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...
Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?
It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...
Scientists’ Simulation Reveals The Devastation Caused If Asteroid Bennu Strikes Earth In 2182
Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...
A small, precious handful of dirt
On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying that ...
James Webb telescope to study asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
The James Webb Space Telescope will be utilized by scientists to get a better understanding of asteroid '2024 YR4,' which holds a small chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Olivia Zollino reports. US ...
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Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt articles from across Nature Portfolio
Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun ... Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth ...