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How do astronomers track asteroids that could threaten Earth?
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
An asteroid has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here’s how astronomers are tracking it
A 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 ...
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An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Aussie astronomer’s sobering warning as NASA warns of increasing meteorite risk
NASA has warned the chance has doubled that the asteroid hurtling towards Earth will make contact. The United States space agency warned the likelihood of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking us in 2032 had ...
Aussie astronomer’s sobering warning as meteorite risk increases
NASA has warned the chance has doubled that the asteroid hurtling towards Earth will make contact. The United States space agency warned the likelihood of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking us in 2032 had ...
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Astronomers Discover Largest Radio Jet from the Early Universe. It’s Twice the Width of the Milky Way!
While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...
New Scientist on MSN3d
Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
Astronomers Suspect Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Left the Universe Awash in Gravitational Waves
Now, astronomers have recorded the faint background hum from a different kind of gravitational wave. These are lower-frequency, longer-wavelength gravitational waves that appear to be coming from ...
EurekAlert!5d
Euclid discovers a stunning Einstein ring
“The galaxy has been known to astronomers for a very long time. And yet this ring was never observed before. This demonstrates how powerful Euclid is, finding new things even in places we ...
Science Daily2d
Astrophysics News
Largest Radio Jet Ever Seen in the Early Universe Feb. 6, 2025 — Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained ...
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Space & Time News
Feb. 7, 2025 — 'Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new ... Multinational Research ...
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Space and Astronomy
Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way. For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered ...