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Space photo of the week: The last view of the 'Great Comet of 2025' for half a million years
Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...
National Geographic news29d
This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its ... Photograph by NASA/Science Photo Library Asteroids often rotate, with their sunward side getting warmed up before ...
New York Post25d
See images of the ‘city-killer’ asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth
the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied like this,” Bryce Bolin, a NASA astronomer involved in the photo ...
USA Today17d
Will an asteroid hit Earth? Likely not. NASA gives 'all clear' as odds fall to near zero
If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news cycle, it's time to catch up on your rest. The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in ...
Digital Trends21d
That killer asteroid probably isn’t going to hit us after all
Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended ... Further observations were made this week, with data from the night of February 19 – 20 showing that the impact chance has ...
The Washington Post22d
Odds of recently discovered asteroid hitting Earth drop nearly to zero
The recently discovered, much-hyped Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has almost zero ... of an impact had peaked at 3.1 percent. Another night of new observations by a telescope in Chile sent the odds ...
Dallas Morning News29d
An asteroid could collide with Earth: What could happen, and should we worry?
An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth Saturday ... but be prepared for a late night.
CNN17d
The riskiest asteroid on record now has near-zero chance of hitting Earth
That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact, meaning there is a 99.9983% chance that the asteroid will safely ... which shone brightly in the night sky on February 12, helped astronomers quickly ...