NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
This fluctuating movement pattern is due to Jupiter’s gravitational pull, which alters the orbit of these asteroids over time. So while YR4 doesn’t threaten us in the foreseeable future ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...
It’s now predicted that 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but Martin Connors explains that it and other asteroids will return.
Real-life asteroids don’t come hurtling toward Earth from the outer reaches of space the way they do in the movies. They tend to orbit elliptical paths around the sun, passing within sight of ...
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NASA to launch spacecraft to track asteroids that threaten EarthA NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...
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