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A Massive Asteroid Hit Earth and Created This 330-Foot Tsunami

Roughly 45 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the seabed of what is now the North Sea, triggering a tsunami that rose over 100 meters high. After decades of scientific debate, ...
Gizmodo

Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not so much. Reading time 3 minutes An asteroid is headed toward a close ...
Astronomy

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of hitting Earth in 2032 are now effectively zero

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially posing a small but noteworthy risk of Earth impact in 2032, has seen its impact probability significantly reduced to 0.0039% following recent observations. The asteroid, ...
Forbes

Update: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Send Back Video Of ‘Peculiar’ Asteroid

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of a three-mile-wide asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, sending back a video composed of 37 images. Called (52246) Donaldjohanson, it’s the ...
The New York Times

Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...