NASA Monitors As Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaches Earth Today
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
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An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024
A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...
‘Tiny rock, a big warning’: Small asteroid slips past Earth, what if the next one isn’t?
A small asteroid, 2024 UQ, hit Earth's atmosphere with minimal warning, highlighting gaps in detection systems. The next ...
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NASA Smashed An Asteroid, And Now The Debris Is Headed Right For Us
When NASA smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft in 2022 on purpose, it was seen as a technological triumph because it demonstrated that humans can ...
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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
Asteroid strikes Earth just hours after it is detected
An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...
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Europe's Hera asteroid probe heads for Mars after engine burn
Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site ...
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Is asteroid Apophis crashing Earth in 2029?
NASA revealed that 'Asteroid 99942 Apophis' is a near-Earth object (NEO) which is likely to be about 335 meters across. It ...
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Giant 'God of Darkness' Asteroid May Not Escape Earth Unscathed
An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...
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An Asteroid Burned Up Over California Just Hours After Being Spotted
Asteroid 2024 UQ entered Earth’s atmosphere hours after detection. 2024 UQ was too small for major impact, disintegrated ...
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Earth hit by asteroid just hours after it was detected, 3rd 'imminent impactor' is here
Only two hours after being detected, an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and slammed into the Pacific Ocean, seemingly ...
Watch How NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Flew By Asteroid Dinkinesh
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...