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NASA tracks a car-sized asteroid approaching Earth as impact risk models tighten

NASA’s asteroid trackers tighten CR2’s orbit with fresh data, and open catalogs show how fast checks keep flybys calm for all now.
Smithsonian Magazine

An Asteroid Might Slam Into the Moon in 2032—and Create a Fiery Flash That’s Visible to Earthlings, New Research Suggests

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

NASA scientist warns there’s no way to stop thousands of city-killing asteroids from striking Earth: ‘It keeps me up at night’

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

Scientists Think We Could Save the World By Nuking an Asteroid. Seriously.

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.
Smithsonian Magazine

After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Wrecked the Planet, Life May Have Bounced Back Surprisingly Fast

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

Building blocks of life discovered in Bennu asteroid rewrite origin story

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Bus-size asteroid flew closer than the moon - watch the orbit animation

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...
Science Focus

The (very weird) way Hollywood keeps lying to us about asteroid belts

Forgot what science-fiction has told you, flying through an asteroid belt would be a major challenge for anyone.