Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
NASA to launch asteroid hunting spacecraft in 2027
A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft specifically ...
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Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LOS ANGELES – There is a non-zero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system ... from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet ...
Hunt for 25,000 hidden asteroids as scientist reveals how we’d stop a dangerous city-killer rock hurtling towards Earth
NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft ...
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NASA warns 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza will make its closest approach to Earth for more than 100 YEARS tomorrow
A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid ... said NASA. 'Composed mostly of water ice with embedded dust particles, comets originally formed in the cold outer planetary system while most of the rocky ...
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NASA to launch asteroid hunting spacecraft in 2027
A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft ... hold ancient information on how our solar system came to be. "These relics are effectively ...