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Newsweek on MSN · 1h

NASA Tracking Truck-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be some 26 feet across.

New Scientist · 16h

Building-sized asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for the first time

Hosted on MSN · 3h

Fears 'football pitch-sized' asteroid could collide with Earth in 2032

A newly identified asteroid, measuring between 40 and 100 metres wide, has been placed at the top of the asteroid risk list.

NASA, Asteroid

Oregonian · 19h

Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, these components could have seeded Earth’s initially barren landscape to produce a habitable world.

UPI News on MSN · 12h

NASA finds ‘key to life’ in Bennu asteroid samples

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

The Washington Post · 22h

Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

Newly-discovered asteroid could hit Earth in 2032

NASA says there's a tiny chance it could collide with Earth, and it's much too soon to know where that impact could be.

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Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

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Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists ...

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New asteroid has a chance of impacting Earth in 2032

Update: Odds have slightly increased to 1 in 83. This is one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly ...

CNET on MSN14h

Newly Discovered Asteroid Has Over 1% Chance Of Earth Impact

NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...

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Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a 1.2 Percent Earth Impact Risk

A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.

Space on MSN1d

Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

1h

Chilling graphic shows ‘Christmas asteroid’ the size of a football pitch on ‘possible’ trajectory to HIT Earth in 7yrs

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...

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New Asteroid Tops NASA’s Impact Risk Chart, 1.2% Chance of 2032 Collision

The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking ...

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