NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 ... which allows astronomers to see fainter objects farther into space. Located atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 ...

After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday. At one point, the odds of a strike ...

Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals ... bag" tech for the collection of orbital debris on the International Space Station later this year. "Now we have a vibrant private space business ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

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the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024 by the Chilean station of the Asteroid Terrestrial ... On Feb. 18, NASA and the European Space Agency announced that the probability of asteroid ...

The world's first private spaceraft built to visit an asteroid is slowly tumbling in space and the outlook is ... only designed to last 2.5 hours on its internal battery, but AstroForge received ...

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