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"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...
Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...
Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.
"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...
Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.
Initial sightings of Asteroid 2032 YR4 were tricky, but tracking has gotten better, helping us understand its path. New data, ...
YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.
James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...
There's a new interstellar object moving through our solar system and it's called 3I/ATLAS, according to NASA.