Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
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OSIRIS-REx Returning Asteroid Bennu Samples To Earth
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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What causes asteroid 2024 YR4’s impact probability to keep changing? Find out here
NASA and ESA are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially had a higher collision probability with Earth than the Apophis asteroid. New data has since lowered the impact risk to 1.5% ...
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‘City Killer’ asteroid approaching Earth in 2032: Is Mumbai at risk? Here’s what we know
Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential threat to Earth with a 1.5% impact chance in December 2032. Major cities like Mumbai, Bogotá, and Lagos could be affected. Space agencies including NASA and ...
Astronomy6d
Asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of hitting Earth just got a lot smaller
In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), located in Chile, identified an asteroid they automatically designated 2024 YR4. The solar system is flooded with asteroids ...
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Odds of asteroid YR4 2024 hitting Earth in 2032 go up, then down again, in latest NASA analysis
An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...
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An asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth keep shifting. Here’s why that is happening
The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance ...
The Washington Post6d
Odds of recently discovered asteroid hitting Earth drop nearly to zero
The recently discovered, much-hyped Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has almost zero chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to the latest astronomical observations. After the probability of impact peaked ...
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Asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, but NASA lowers impact probability to 0.3%
A near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4 was first reported in December by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile. As of Thursday, Feb. 20, data shows that ...
USA Today6d
Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth drop from record high, NASA says of 'city killer'
Asteroid 2024 YR4, measuring 130 to 300 feet wide, currently has a 1.5% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. The odds of impact have decreased from initial estimates, and NASA expects them to ...
Global News6d
The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth have changed, yet again
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is certainly keeping NASA on its toes, as the threat of its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 continues to yo-yo. Just three days ago, the space agency announced that the ...