The New York Times22d
Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
AstroForge’s science team assessed the asteroid by using telescopes, including the Lowell Observatory and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, to estimate its metallic content. They believe ...
The New York Times20d
NASA Gives ‘All Clear’ for Asteroid That Seemed to Threaten Earth
The agency is continuing to monitor the asteroid from observatories around the world, including with the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona and the Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands.
Camden New Journal13d
Don’t worry about being wiped out by an asteroid… ‘just yet’
IN a gloomy week in which energy bills were set to soar, Arsenal surrendered the title race and Martin Fowler was killed by ...
BGR27d
City-killer asteroid could strike the Moon instead of Earth, reports claim
But what happens if this city-killer asteroid hits the Moon instead? According to David Rankin, an operations engineer at the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey, if 2024 YR4 hit the ...
BGR14d
Students stumble upon new black hole in NASA asteroid probe data
It was tasked with traveling to the asteroid, orbiting it, and eventually snatching samples so it could return that material to Earth. Spotting distant black holes wasn’t initially part of the ...
Yahoo28d
'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say
David Rankin, an operations engineer for the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, revealed in a post on Bluesky that the asteroid also has a 0.3% chance of hitting our natural satellite.