Asteroid update, a planetary alignment and a winter warm-up in the forecast for Boston
WBZ-TV meteorologists Jacob Wycoff and Terry Eliasen give an update on an asteroid's chances of hitting Earth, a planetary ...
Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
That killer asteroid probably isn’t going to hit us after all
With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...
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NASA picks SpaceX rocket to launch asteroid threat hunter NEO Surveyor in 2027
NASA has selected SpaceX to launch its NEO Surveyor spacecraft, which will hunt for asteroids and comets that could pose a ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 more likely to smash into the Moon? Here’s what scientists predict about earth-asteroid collision
NASA has revised the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, reducing it to 0.28%. There are ...
‘500 Hiroshima bombs’: Earth may dodge Asteroid 2024 YR4, but the worse is coming
YR4 once held a 3.1% impact chance, with the power of 500 Hiroshima bombs. Though the risk dropped, future asteroid threats ...
The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about
Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.