Good news: The asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth in 2032. Bad news: There’s a small chance it hits the moon. Researchers later this month, and again in May, are planning to use the James Webb Space ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

Related: 'I think we all know that hope is fading.' Private Odin asteroid probe is tumbling in space Odin was supposed to fly by a small near-Earth asteroid named 2022 OB5 to collect imagery and ...

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A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 impact risk has been reduced to zero NASA downgrades 2024 YR4 to Torino Scale Level Zero Scientists to study asteroid during close flybys in 2028, 2032 ...

Richard Binzel, Professor of Planetary Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and creator of the Torino Scale, told Space.com that updated tracking of the asteroid's orbit reduced ...

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The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years, the space agency hopes to launch an infrared space telescope devoted to ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside a ...

Hainaut The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in ... which allows astronomers to see fainter objects farther into space. Located atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 ...

NASA has repeatedly changed estimates on whether a huge Big Ben-sized asteroid first spotted last ... our planet - and no Christmas collision. The space rock will appear near Earth again in ...