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Everyone’s talking about a new asteroid heading towards Earth, but is it a threat?

Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 as it heads towards Earth. Should we be worried about it? Here's what you need to know.

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Agencies plan for near-Earth asteroid’s close encounter in 2032

Astronomers confirmed the object as a near-Earth asteroid, and catalogued it as 2024 YR4. But additional calculations soon raised red flags—its estimated 130-328 feet diameter and potential orbital path meant that,

The Independent on MSN · 7h

An asteroid is heading for Earth - but you'll have to wait a while to find out if we're gonna get hit

The nearly 200-foot space rock has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever,’ says astronomer

Asteroid Bennu Carries Most of Building Blocks of Life

CNN on MSN · 1d

Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Salon on MSN · 4h

Building blocks of life discovered on asteroid Bennu

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy. The research gives new insight into how life originated on Earth and where we might find it elsewhere in the universe.

Popular Science · 1d

Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in Nature describes an unexpected discovery in the material delivered by OSIRIS-REx: residues of compounds left over by the evaporation of liquid water.

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An asteroid with a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032 is triggering planetary defense planning

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

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Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's trashed Tesla

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

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Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu

A sample collected from asteroid Bennu shows that our solar system was teeming with the potential for life.The Latest Tech ...

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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 ...

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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

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