Scientists Raise Alarms on Asteroid 2024 YR4 Heading for the Moon and Debate Nuking It to Prevent Disaster

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032, and some scientists are considering whether they ...
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Bright object over sky identified as burning rocket stage or small asteroid in Moscow, Russia

On October 27, 2025, in Moscow, Russia, security video captured a bright object streaking across the early morning sky around 6:30 a.m. In the footage, taken from multiple CCTV cameras, the glowing ...
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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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An Asteroid Known as a ‘City Killer’ May Be Heading to the Moon — and Scientists Are Wondering If Earth Should Nuke It

A group of scientists recently published a paper that considers options for dealing with the asteroid — one of which includes a nuclear “disruption” An asteroid may hit the moon in 2032 — and some ...
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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. Exploding with 30 times the energy ... One found that rogue boulders from the rubble pile could hit ...