NASA’s $1.4 billion asteroid tracker to hunt ‘city-killer’ space rocks to save Earth from apocalypse
NASA's $1.4 billion NEO Surveyor space telescope is designed to spot and track potentially hazardous asteroids, offering ...
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Remember that asteroid everyone was worried about 2 months ago? The JWST just got a clear view of it
For a few weeks in January and February this year, asteroid 2024 YR4 had us all worried. Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting ...
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NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
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‘City-killer’ asteroid now on crash course with the moon after Earth likely to dodge a direct hit
The football field-sized asteroid’s odds of striking the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, jumped from 1.7% in late February to 3.8% based on data collected using the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Watch 'potentially hazardous' asteroid fly near Earth this weekend in this free livestream
The project's free online livestream will begin at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) on Saturday, as the asteroid moves away from Earth. You can watch the livestream here on Space.com courtesy of the Virtual ...
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Here's An Image of the Asteroid Everyone Was Worried About
The threat is all but gone, but now we have pictures of the once-worrisome asteroid. The imagery was captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and posted by the European Space Agency on Wednesday.
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The Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4. The moon? Not so much, Webb telescope finds
An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...
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JWST snaps first image of asteroid that threatened Earth
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The deep space asteroid that recently made headlines for its potential to collide with Earth received its own photoshoot courtesy ...
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Asteroid that caused panic about deadly collision with Earth is huge, Nasa finds
The asteroid that caused panic about potentially colliding with Earth is the size of a building, Nasa has found. The Webb Space Telescope has captured more information and detailed pictures of ...
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Scientists say ‘city-killer’ asteroid on potential collision course with Moon
But new direct observations of the asteroid by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope suggest a nearly 4 per cent chance of the rock smashing into the Moon. Scientists say that even a 1 per cent ...
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‘City killer’ asteroid could hit moon after Earth likely to dodge a direct hit
Asteroid 2024 YR4 will likely spare Earth, but still has a chance of hitting the Moon. Picture: European Space Agency/AP The football field-sized asteroid’s odds of striking the moon on December ...