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Posted on April 4, 2025

Watch ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid fly near Earth this weekend in this free livestream

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream views of the asteroid's close approach online.
Posted on March 21, 2025

Next month NASA’s Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that’s been waiting 150 million years to say hello

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon travel by asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed roughly 150 million years ago.
Posted on March 18, 2025

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.
Posted on March 5, 2025

The solar system is teeming with 1 million ‘alien invaders’ from Alpha Centauri

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri, new research has revealed.
Posted on February 26, 2025

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 asteroid 2024 YR4 poses nearly zero risk of impacting Earth in 2032.
Posted on February 24, 2025

Earth safe from ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 ‘That’s impact probability zero folks!’

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting our planet are now zero. Last week, it was the riskiest asteroid to hit our planet since records began.
Posted on February 20, 2025February 20, 2025

NASA lowers impact risk of ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 360

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 360, just a day after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.
Posted on February 16, 2025

‘City-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.
Posted on February 14, 2025

What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)

Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
Posted on February 11, 2025

What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.

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