An Asteroid Known as a ‘City Killer’ May Be Heading to the Moon — and Scientists Are Wondering If Earth Should Nuke It

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032NEED TO KNOWAsteroid 2024 YR4, an asteroid discovered in 2024, has a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032Should the asteroid ...
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Asteroid discovered only 2 days ago just flew by Earth closer than the moon

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...
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Science history: DART, humanity’s first-ever asteroid deflection mission, punches a space rock in the face — Sept. 26, 2022

Then in 2013, a meteor the size of a semitrailer breached the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia ... "If an asteroid was tumbling toward us, and we knew we had to move it a specific amount to prevent ...

An asteroid might be heading for the moon. Should we nuke it?

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

Japanese spacecraft eyes tricky asteroid landing

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to not only land on and launch from an asteroid (Itokawa), but successfully ...