NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today

According to NASA, "Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...
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NASA Rammed A Spaceship Into An Asteroid And Made A Fascinating Discovery

Deflecting asteroids by running spaceships into them may sound like science fiction, but it's quite real. And it's quite a ...
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Science history: DART, humanity’s first-ever asteroid deflection mission, punches a space rock in the face — Sept. 26, 2022

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
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Small Asteroid Captured Hours Prior To Earth Impact

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

NASA must nuke doomsday asteroid to prevent catastrophe

After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the moon — by blowing it up with nukes.
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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 ...

Nuclear Plan Suggested To Prevent Asteroid Hitting The Moon

A plan by a team of scientists suggests using nuclear explosive devices to prevent an asteroid, 2024 YR4, from striking the moon in 2032.