The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...
NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.
The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind, altering its orbit around its larger companion asteroid.___ ...
The race to understand more about the asteroid that ... launched Christmas Day in 2021 and made a splash seven months later when the first images were released in July 2022. The $10 billion ...
That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our ... a NASA spacecraft proved in 2022 that the basic technology exists to intercept and deflect it before it comes anywhere near us.
NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind, altering its ...