An asteroid has a slight chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4 and a way to stop that.
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We could nuke 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 before it hits the moon — if we act fast, new study warns
The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a small risk to Earth but higher chance of striking the Moon, prompting nuclear defence discussions.
Scientists are taking precautions against Asteroid 2024 YR4, which might hit the Moon in 2032. Instead of the usual plan to ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit moon
Asteroid 2024 YR4, whirling serenely around the sun, will certainly not hit Earth in 2032 as once feared. But they've run the ...
With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...
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Nuke or Shatter? The Race to Stop Asteroid 2024 YR4 Before It Hits the Moon
Would one error transform a lunar danger into a global catastrophe? That is the query confronting researchers as they consider how to handle asteroid 2024 YR4, a 55–60 meter-sized object now estimated ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planning to hit the “doomsday asteroid” with a nuclear bomb and destroy ...
Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites and astronauts in space, prompting a group of scientists ...
NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by a spacecraft maneuver.
The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...
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