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Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has a 4% Chance of Hitting the Moon

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory spots asteroid in pre-survey observations: « First peer-reviewed paper using data from SLAC-built LSST Camera identifies an asteroid, nearly the size of eight football fields, rotating every two minutes. »

Rubin Observatory Spots an Asteroid That Spins Fast Enough To Set a Record

Dinosaurs Were Thriving Until Asteroid Struck, Research Suggests

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4

Scientists find proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea over 43 million years ago

Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Spared The Earth. What Happens if It Hits the Moon Instead in 2032?

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid, but now it’s running in backup mode | Engineers switched to a backup fuel line less than a quarter of the way through Psyche's mission.

NASA raises the odds that an asteroid could hit the moon in 2032

Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases

China's asteroid-and-comet hunter probe unfurls a 'solar wing'

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is about to have its second close encounter with an asteroid

NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

Earth Safe From 'City-Killer' Asteroid 2024 YR4