NASA shared a date for when £10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid could be brought back to Earth
NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn’t quite work out. “We blossomed three or four years too early for the big gold rush of ...
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Everyone is Wrong About Asteroid Mining
Could asteroid mining make the first trillionaire? It sounds like a sci-fi dream: extracting gold, platinum, and rare metals from space rocks and bringing them back to Earth for unlimited wealth. But ...
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Chance of asteroid striking Earth in the next decade rises to 3.1%, NASA says
The chances has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, officials said. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...
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Could an asteroid hit Earth in 2032? Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...
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This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...
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Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth fluctuate as Webb telescope is tasked with studying potential "city-killer"
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...
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An asteroid has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here's how astronomers are tracking it
PASADENA, California — Recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking ...