Estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, Asteroid 2024 YR4 grabbed the attention of astronomers when it rose on the NASA automated Sentry risk list on December 31, 2024. Listen to Story Nasa ...
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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 ...
NASA has flagged asteroid 2024 YR4 as a potential Earth impactor in 2032. Its odds of hitting are just over 1%. Credit: SciTechDaily.com An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, 2024 YR4, has caught NASA ...
Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on ...
"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will aim to land on the asteroid and begin extraction." A U.S. asteroid ...
An asteroid, estimated to be between 40 and 100 metres wide, has a very slim chance of hitting the Earth in about eight years time. NASA’s analysis of the newly identified asteroid, 2024 YR4, ...
A freshly spotted asteroid that is up to 300ft wide detected by an automated telescope in December has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, scientists have said. The asteroid has been designated ...
An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...