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Newsweek on MSN · 6h

NASA Tracking Truck-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be some 26 feet across.

New Scientist · 21h

Building-sized asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for the first time

Cleveland.com · 7h

Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth next decade

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%.

NASA finds building blocks for life in Bennu asteroid sample

Digital Trends on MSN · 20m

Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Scientists studying the sample collected in 2023 from asteroid Bennu have announced a dramatic finding: they have identified the key building blocks of life within the sample.

Salon on MSN · 36m

Building blocks of life discovered on asteroid Bennu

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy. The research gives new insight into how life originated on Earth and where we might find it elsewhere in the universe.

UPI News on MSN · 16h

NASA finds ‘key to life’ in Bennu asteroid samples

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

1h

Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Scientists are keeping close watch on the space rock, which was spotted last month and is currently heading away from Earth.

19h

Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

Space on MSN2d

Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

4h

Chilling graphic shows ‘Christmas asteroid’ the size of a football pitch on ‘possible’ trajectory to HIT Earth in 7yrs

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...

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Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a 1.2 Percent Earth Impact Risk

A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.

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New Asteroid Tops NASA’s Impact Risk Chart, 1.2% Chance of 2032 Collision

The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking ...

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Asteroid? Nope, It’s Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster Cruising Through Space

Less than 24 hours after the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of a new asteroid ...

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Asteroid flying close to Earth turns out to be douchebag's car

Earlier this month, astronomers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reported discovery of an asteroid passing ...

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