According toNASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), when 2024 YR4 passed by on Dec. 25, 2024, its closest approach was around 828,700 km from Earth, or a little over twice the distance to the Moon. However, on Dec. 22, 2032, i...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Scott Sutherland "Asteroid Apophis has fascinated us as a species since its discovery in 2004: it was the first credible threat from an asteroid to our planet," Wiegert, a member of Western University's Institute for Earth and Space ...
If an asteroid the size of YR4 were to hit our planet, it would not end life on Earth, but it would bedevastating. At that size, the impact would be equivalent to a “10-megaton bomb,” Tonry says—more than enough to cause widespread regional decimation. “Everything within three or...
Hollywood has made many sci-fi movies about asteroids(小行星) crashing into Earth and destroying us all. The U.S. space agency NASA may have an answer to this end-of-the-world possibility. It has tested a spacecraft ...
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away from Florida on Monday on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA in 2022.
A newly detected asteroid has a very small chance of impacting the Earth in 2046, Nasa tweeted on Tuesday. NASA在周二上午发推特表示:一个最新探测到的小行星有非常小的概率在2046年撞击地球。 If it does hit, the asteroid, roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool, may arrive on Valentine'...
Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth fluctuate as NASA tasked with studying it Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Feb 21 Could an asteroid could hit Earth in 2032? Here's what...
An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planet's orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx ...
That killer asteroid probably isn’t going to hit us after all James Webb to join observations of asteroid that could strike Earth in 2032 Asteroid with a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 spotted by astronomers NASA says goodbye to our planetary protector, the asteroid-spotting NEOWISE mission...
in the future, Earth is going to end up in the crosshairs of an asteroid that's big enough to be a threat. Whether it's a 'planet-killer' or a 'city-killer', we need to know about these asteroids, and we need to have a plan in place to deal...