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Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...
YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...
The chance of a collision with the moon, however, has slowly been increasing, and now stands at 4.3 per cent based on the last observations taken before the asteroid flew out of view of our ...
The study simulates 10,000 clones of the asteroid taking different trajectories and in 410 of them, the space rock strikes the Moon. If the asteroid does strike the Moon, it is likely to do so in ...
A recent announcement from NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 4.3 percent chance of hitting the moon on December 22, 2032. This probability was determined through observations using ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances of hitting the moon in December 2032 have increased to 4.3%.