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A group of scientists recently published a paper that considers options for dealing with the asteroid — one of which includes a nuclear “disruption” An asteroid may hit the moon in 2032 — and some ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

We might go full “Armageddon” on asteroid 2024 YR4. After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the ...

If researchers one day spot an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has already demonstrated that we can change its path by smashing a spaceship ...

The label "space rock" feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window to get someone's attention. A rock holds down your picnic blanket to keep it ...

An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Millions of people have seen his artwork — every time they drive into Utah, fly into Salt Lake City or watch a particular Wes Anderson movie — but likely few know his name. It's David ...

Nexstar’s KTLA spoke with Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who works in the agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. He shared how scientists tracked ...

(KTLA) – Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon. Nexstar’s KTLA spoke with Davide Farnocchia, a ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon. KTLA spoke with Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer ...