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"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...
Scientists Believe an Asteroid Might Crash Into the Moon in 2032, a Once-in-5,000-Year Event A recently discovered asteroid ...
A large asteroid will pass close to Earth in July 2025. NASA and ISRO are closely monitoring its trajectory. The asteroid, ...
Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
There’s been widespread speculation that an asteroid, as large as the Himalayas, will collide with Earth on April 29, 2020, ending life as we know it. The asteroid in question is 52768 (1998 OR2), ...
“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.