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News Articles: asteroids

This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system shows the motion of asteroid 2024 YR4 over about one hour, Dec. 27, 2024.

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The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid hitting Earth have fallen to zero

After weeks at the top of the Sentry list at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer considered a threat to Earth.

February 25, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
This photo provided by NASA shows the Orionid meteors on Oct. 13, 2015.

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  • Space

An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032.

February 12, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
A meteor contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in a photo taken by a mobile phone camera. The object streaked across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains region causing a shock wave and injuring hundreds of people, including many who were hurt by broken glass.

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  • Space

Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

February 02, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
An image captured from a SpaceX livestream shows the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft preparing to lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday.

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  • Space

A European spacecraft launches to perform a crash scene investigation on an asteroid

A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the damage, with the goal of helping future asteroid deflection.

October 07, 2024
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  • Chandelis Duster
Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA's DART spacecraft 11 seconds before the impact that shifted its path through space, in the first test of asteroid deflection.

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  • Science

Asteroid headed toward Earth? NASA simulation explores how the nation might respond

NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it

June 21, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Small rocks and dust from an asteroid, outside a round sample collection device in a NASA lab.

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  • Space

Take a peek at what NASA brought back from an asteroid

Scientists are thrilled with the tiny asphalt-black rocks, and most of the sample hasn't even been revealed yet.

October 12, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
An artist's conception of the Psyche spacecraft approaching an asteroid that's largely composed of metal.

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  • Space

This next NASA mission to an asteroid is seriously metal

A NASA mission called Psyche is about to launch on a mission out to an unusual asteroid that's scientists believe is largely composed of metal.

October 11, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This mosaic composed of images of the asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows its surprisingly rubble-strewn surface.

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  • Space

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

September 22, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This imagery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into the asteroid's surface.

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  • Science

Astronomers still have their eyes on that asteroid NASA whacked

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid, directly altering its path through space. Scientists are still studying the space rock to learn more.

March 04, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Asteroid 2023 BU will streak about 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface on Thursday night. Its path is seen here in an image from NASA's Scout impact hazard assessment system. The moon's path is in gray.

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  • Space

A recently discovered asteroid had 'a very close encounter' with Earth

There was no reason for alarm, as a NASA engineer called it "one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded." It was only 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface.

January 27, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
This illustration shows the DART spacecraft approaching the two asteroids, Didymos and Dimorphos, with a small observing spacecraft nearby.

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  • Space

Move over, Bruce Willis: NASA crashed into an asteroid to test planetary defense

NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of planetary defense. Now it will determine whether the mission was able to alter the asteroid's course.

September 26, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This image of Bennu, taken from a range of 15 miles, shows its unexpectedly rough and rocky surface.

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  • Space

Got Plans For Sept. 24, 2182? This Big Asteroid Might, Too

A NASA mission to a potentially dangerous asteroid has let researchers map out its future trajectory like never before.

August 11, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
An artist's rendering shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending toward the asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid's surface.

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  • Science

A NASA Probe Is So Full of Asteroid Material That It Now Has A Problem

A NASA spacecraft sent out to collect rocks from an asteroid seems to have nabbed a lot of material, but there's now an unexpected problem — a flap isn't closing because some rocks are stuck.

October 23, 2020
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images collected on Dec. 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles.

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  • Science

A NASA Spacecraft Successfully Touched Down On A Rocky Asteroid

NASA has collected and is returning its first sample from an asteroid. The rocks and dust could help us understand potentially dangerous space rocks and the history of the solar system.

October 20, 2020
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce

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