Asteroid 2024 YR4 not a threat to Earth, Subaru Telescope affirms
YR4, initially raising impact concerns, is confirmed safe for Earth after precise observations by the Subaru Telescope. Early ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit the Moon, raising concerns for future lunar missions; here’s what NASA says
Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...
Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)
It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...
See ESA Hera Spacecraft's Trajectory To The Didymos Asteroid System
ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...
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Asteroid 2024 JN16 Makes A Close Approach To Earth
Border czar Tom Homan on his message to sanctuary city mayors ahead of their testimony on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria ...
From Danger to Dismissed: How Scientists Ruled Out This Asteroid Threat
For a brief moment, asteroid 2024 YR4 had scientists on edge, with its impact probability climbing as high as 2.8%—enough to capture global attention. But thanks to rapid observations and advanced ...
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves ...
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Oxfordshire spacecraft tech start-up raises $10.5m
A start-up creating spacecraft propulsion systems has raised $10.5 million through a round of seed funding. Magdrive, based at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, is developing an electric ...
Designing Nuclear-Armed Rockets To Destroy Doomsday Asteroids
A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...
This Asteroid Had a 3 Percent Chance of Hitting Earth and Now It’s Zero
For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...
The Musk acolyte protecting Earth from city-killing asteroids
The task of protecting Earth from these fragments – leftovers from the creation of the solar system 4.6bn years ago – now ...
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5 Space Missions to Watch in March: Mars Gravity Assists and Astronaut Homecomings
Two Mars gravity assists are expected, and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally set to come home from an extended stay on the International Space Station. Here are five space ...