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An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
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The race to visit the asteroid making the closest pass by Earth
Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...
NASA probe set to uncover secrets of mysterious asteroid: 'We don't know what to expect'
NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.
NASA Tracking Building-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...
‘God Of Chaos’ Asteroid: It’s Exactly Four Years Until The Rarest Space Event Of Our Lives
On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...
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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
Look up: An asteroid measuring 35-storey building will pass earth today, but NASA says don't worry
On April 11, 2025, a large asteroid named 2023 KU, approximately 113 meters wide, will safely pass Earth at a distance of ...
NASA alert! A massive 370-ft asteroid as big as a 35-storey building set to pass Earth – know more about the speed and time
Asteroid 2023 KU, comparable to a 35-story building, will safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance twice that of ...
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There's a giant asteroid hurtling toward earth: Here's how to see it
While several small asteroids pass within this distance of Earth a few times a week, this is the closest by any known asteroid of this size or bigger in 13 years -- since asteroid Toutatis in 2004 ...
How NASA science data defends Earth from asteroids
YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...
Lucy spacecraft prepares for second asteroid encounter
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...