A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...
While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...
Scientists see this as a much more favorable alternative to nuclear deflection, which would use a powerful nuclear bomb to ...
What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...
View post: Winter Storm Warning Map Tracks Powerful Weather Mass After 66.5 Inches of Snow Hits the U.S. Astronomers say a recently-discovered asteroid nearly landed on Earth, and that it could have ...
A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...
The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...
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