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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it—and others—will keep coming back
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
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Rocket Lab launches 8 wildfire-hunting satellites into orbit from New Zealand (video)
Rocket Lab has launched its workhorse Electron rocket for the third time in two weeks. The New Zealand-based company ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
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Climate change will reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space
Aerospace engineers found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can safely operate there.
‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid To Make Its Closest Approach To Earth In More Than 100 Years This Week
A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.
What Happens When Planets Orbit Too Close to Fiery Young Stars
Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...
Four planets found orbiting a star 6 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
Alindas follow their pumped-up orbit every four years, so properly aligned Alindas get a chance to hit Earth about that often. Near passes of these asteroids tend to happen spaced by longer ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!
The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...