NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s expected to zoom past our planet tonight at around 19,000 miles per hour, ...
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The asteroid that will spare Earth might hit the moon instead. What happens if it does?

(CNN) — The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, ...

Jupiter is a Gas Giant, So How Can Asteroids Not Pass Through It? This Is Quite Surprising

I remember watching a documentary that described Jupiter as a gas giant. The image that came to my mind was a huge, soft ...

An Asteroid Could Smash Into the Moon in 2032. Here’s Why We Should Destroy It

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...
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'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis will fly by Earth in April 2029 — and these 3 space probes will be watching

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

Once feared to hit in 2089, skyscrapper-sized asteroid will pass by Earth: How to watch live

The asteroid named 2025 FA22 was once categorised as potentially hazardous and is said to fly by Earth on September 12.

A massive 100-foot asteroid is approaching Earth at high speed today, NASA confirms

Asteroid 2025 QV9 is roughly 100 feet wide. It travels at 10,319 miles per hour. Its closest approach will be 1,250,000 miles. Although that seems far, space experts say it is close. The asteroid is ...

Scientists find proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...
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Asteroid that will spare Earth might hit the moon instead. What happens if it does?

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...