Earth Safe From Asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA Says The odds that the space rock, 2024 YR4, will smash into our planet in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, leading astronomers to conclude that we are no longer in danger.

Chances Of City-Killing Asteroid Impact In 2032 Upped To 1 in 43 In case you needed more proof that we live in a near-apocalyptic cyberpunk dystopia, the United States’ planetary defense office has warned about a possible collision from an asteroid with the potential to level cities. The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, has a one in 43 chance of hitting Earth — and that number seems… Read more…

You won’t believe what NASA found in these asteroid samples!

Asked this question to my students: the world is about to be hit by an asteroid. What’s the last song you listen to? You’re standing watching the asteroid come straight for you, you have a giant stereo on your shoulder. Whatever song you pick, the asteroid will take exactly that long to hit. What you picking? submitted by /u/mzingg3

NASA’s DART mission punched the Didymos asteroid in 2022 — now it’s time to go back This is Hera’s asteroid framing camera being used in Spain for testing navigation algorithms. | Image: MPS / GMVThe European Space Agency (ESA) is running some of the final tests required to launch its Hera mission this October, which aims to investigate the asteroid that NASA intentionally slammed a spacecraft into back in 2022. The goal is to …

Photos: NASA’s Lucy Mission Finds Dinkinesh Asteroid Has a Moon On its way to the Trojan swarms, the spacecraft made a pit stop at a rock named Dinkinesh — and the images it sent back revealed that this asteroid has its own moon.

NASA’s Psyche Asteroid Mission Launch: What You Need to Know The journey on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has been delayed this week by poor weather conditions.

NASA Reveals First Pictures of Osiris-Rex Asteroid Samples Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu.

NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters Victoria Thiem, system safety engineer from Lockheed Martin, checks the temperature of the actual size OSIRIS-REx’s return capsule sample during the recovery rehearsal at Lockheed Martin, Waterton Canyon campus in Littleton, Colorado on Tuesday, June 27, 2023.  | Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver PostThe OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has …

Watch as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brings asteroid samples back to Earth NASASeven years after the OSIRIS-REx mission launched, a capsule containing rocks captured from the asteroid Bennu in 2020 will land in Utah on Sunday morning. Continue reading…

Watch Live: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Brings Asteroid Samples Back to Earth A seven-year mission will end on Sunday as scientists await a sample of rock from Bennu, an asteroid that might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.