NASA and the Europeans Space Agency are among the world's space agencies developing methods of protecting Earth from inbound ... which is a tiny moonlet asteroid orbiting the larger 2,560-foot ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into ... The four satellites of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission recently measured a burst of chorus waves coming from a spot about 102,526 ...

Currently, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%,” said NASA in a release. While there’s still a nearly 99 percent chance that 2024 YR4 won’t impact Earth ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth is posing an increased threat ... This undated photo provided by NASA shows a recovered chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the ...

NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR now has a 2.3 percent chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032. That’s one percent ...

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The space rock has a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager for the Center for Near Earth Object Studies, or CNEOS, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

According to the latest calculations from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, there is a 1.6% chance the asteroid will strike Earth on December 22, 2032. The asteroid 2024 YR4 is now rated at Level ...

The time of closest approach to Earth (when it could potentially impact) is the 22 December 2032. The asteroid has been ranked as ‘level 3’ on the Torino Impact Hazard scale, but NASA says this is ...

Indian postal department has allotted a unique postal code of pin code to each district/village/town/city to ensure quick delivery of postal services. A Postal Index Number or PIN or PIN code is a ...

Generally, defunct or dead satellites in VLEO will eventually fall back into the deeper atmosphere and break up, limiting the volume of space junk that would otherwise be left orbiting Earth.