See ESA Hera Spacecraft's Trajectory To The Didymos Asteroid System
ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...
Chance asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth down to 0.001 percent, ESA says
The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 Update: Scientists Say 'City Killer' No Threat to Earth
Scientists have officially ruled out any threat from a newly discovered asteroid. After months of speculation, NASA and the ...
The riskiest asteroid on record now has near-zero chance of hitting Earth
The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of colliding with Earth in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, thanks to new observations of the space rock.
Will an asteroid hit Earth? Likely not. NASA gives 'all clear' as odds fall to near zero
The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...
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Asteroid with chance to hit Earth downgraded to level zero threat
YR4 was recently upgraded to a level three threat on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, but its chances of impact are now nearly ...
'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 now unlikely to hit Earth, says ESA
YR4, once considered a potential threat to Earth, is now unlikely to hit in 2032, as new data and observations significantly ...
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ESA Cancels Asteroid 2024 YR4 Threat Alert
Less than two months after asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of the European Space Agency’s risk list of near-Earth objects, ...
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Congratulations, You Probably Won’t Be Killed by an Asteroid in 2032
No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. There is now a .004 percent chance it will impact Earth. Here’s NASA’s explanation of why it’s no longer considered a threat (for at least the ...
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Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
Asteroids are left over remnants from the formation of the solar system, mostly rock, but also metallic, or icy bodies that ...
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Watch the asteroid that had us all worried zoom harmlessly through space (video)
Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of ...
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Asteroid with chance to hit Earth downgraded to level zero threat
The ESA also confirmed that the asteroid's risk factor had shrunk dramatically. "The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 might impact Earth on 22 December 2032 has dropped from 2.8% to 1.4% to 0.16 ...