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 ...
What would happen if asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon? Scientists have a theory - There’s a 4.3% chance it hits the moon in ...
A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon ...
Early last year, there was talk that the newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a really small, but probable chance of ...
In a plan ripped straight from the script of the 1998 movie "Armageddon," scientists have suggested a simple, if violent, method of dealing with a troublesome asteroid. Just nuke it. But in this case, ...
Astronomers are gearing up for an unprecedented celestial event that could redefine our understanding of lunar impacts. On December 22, 2032, there is a possibility that asteroid 2024 YR4 could ...
If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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