ESA monitoring asteroid that could strike Earth
The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found ...
Asteroid the size of London Eye sparks global defence plan as it heads towards Earth
A massive asteroid discovered last month could crash into Earth and it has now triggered a planetary defence response having moved to the top of impact risk lists ...
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Newly discovered ‘city-killer’ asteroid has potential to hit Earth. Here’s what we know — and why astronomers are paying attention
What could be a 100-metre wide asteroid, 2024 YR4, has very slim chance of hitting the Earth early in about eight years time. Here’s why astronomers are paying attention.
NASA’s five most dangerous asteroids that are a potential threat to Earth
However, the 74 million tonne space rock, which was first discovered in 1999, could potentially strike Earth in around one hundred years time. NASA has calculated there is a 0.037 per cent – or one in ...
Asteroid contains ‘building blocks of life’: ‘This is all very exciting’
CNN reports how new research from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center published to “Nature” has revealed that samples from the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, contains organic compounds and minerals ...
Harvard astronomers mistake Elon Musk's car for an asteroid
What was believed to be a new asteroid spotted flying close to our planet this month turned out to have Earthly, albeit unnatural, origins. On Jan. 2, the asteroid-tracking Minor Planet Center (MPC) ...