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NASA’s Webb Discovers Building-Sized Asteroid 2024 YR4: An Unlikely Threat to Earth
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently focused its sights on the asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing that this building-sized object, measuring approximately 60 meters (about 200 feet), poses no ...
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We now know the shape of notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 that dominated headlines recently — it's probably 'suburban,' too
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor James Webb Space Telescope images of the asteroid 2024 YR4 taken with the telescope's ...
Chances Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Moon increase but Earth remains in the clear
An asteroid that set off a global effort to determine if it would impact Earth in 2032 is no longer a threat to our planet, however, chances of a hit to the Moon are increasing.
The Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4. The moon? Not so much, Webb telescope finds
An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...
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Fearless James Webb Telescope Stares Down "City Killer" Asteroid That Had Been Feared to Strike Earth
The James Webb Space Telescope got a direct look at 2024 YR4, the asteroid once feared to strike Earth, and has determined ...
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...