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Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032

An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, NASA says. Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

Yahoo · 3d

Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth go up as NASA tasked with studying it

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

USA Today · 1d

Is an asteroid going to hit Earth in 2032? What to know about 2024 YR4

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers say not to fret.

Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Orbiting the Moon

Gizmodo · 1d

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Bids Farewell to Earth on Its Way to the Moon

The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway through its journey to the Moon. The mission, named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” will spend around 16 days in lunar orbit before attempting a soft touchdown on the lunar surface.

CNET on MSN · 23h

The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Orbiting the Moon, With Dazzling Photographs

NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander has arrived at the moon and is now orbiting Earth's nearest neighbor as it prepares to make its landing next month. And it's capturing some amazing photos on its journey.

MarketWatch · 23h

NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly's First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing

With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. Blue Ghost is slated to touch down near Mare Crisium,

What asteroid heading towards Earth looks like as 'exact locations' of potential 2032 collision revealed

Here is NASA's prediction as what asteroid 2024 YR4 looks like, as the date and location of a potential 2032 collision are ...

An asteroid could collide with Earth: What could happen, and should we worry?

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

Popular Mechanics on MSN12d

An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The Associated Press on MSN9d

How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

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Asteroid The Size Of Football Field Has Chance Of Hitting Earth In 8 Years

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December ... By New Year's Eve, it had landed on the desk of Kelly Fast, acting planetary defense officer at US space agency NASA, as an object ...

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Scientists discover an asteroid created a pair of grand canyons on the moon

The debris landed like missiles ... Kring and his team estimate the asteroid was 15 miles (25 kilometers) across and that the energy needed to create these two canyons would have been more ...

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Asteroid (Essay)

When I learn everyone is frantically Googling “asteroid to hit earth,” I feel more optimistic than I have in months. I run outside to look up at the sky and see nothing. The sky, like my pallor and ...

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