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Newsweek on MSN · 1h

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. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be some 26 feet across.

New Scientist · 16h

Building-sized asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for the first time

Daily Express on MSN · 6h

NASA fears newly spotted football pitch sized asteroid could crash into Earth

An asteroid the size of a football pitch could hit the Earth in seven years, astronomers have warned. The rocky object, measuring between 40 and 100 metres wide, was spotted on Christmas Day by a telescope in Chile and is believed to have a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet.

NASA finds building blocks for life in Bennu asteroid sample

Oregonian · 19h

Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, these components could have seeded Earth’s initially barren landscape to produce a habitable world.

UPI News on MSN · 12h

NASA finds ‘key to life’ in Bennu asteroid samples

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

Fast Company · 17h

NASA’s returned Bennu asteroid samples contain the building blocks for life

NASA's findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.

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Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

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Chilling graphic shows ‘Christmas asteroid’ the size of a football pitch on ‘possible’ trajectory to HIT Earth in 7yrs

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...

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NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

Space on MSN6d

Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

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Exact date massive asteroid the size of London Eye could collide with Earth

NASA and other space agencies are keeping a close eye on the asteroid - which is estimated to be between 130ft and 330ft ...

19hon MSN

Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

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New Asteroid Tops NASA’s Impact Risk Chart, 1.2% Chance of 2032 Collision

The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking ...

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Giant 196-foot-wide killer asteroid could strike Earth in 2032, experts warn

A giant space rock is on a potential collision course with Earth in 2032. Dubbed 2024 YR4, this asteroid poses a small but ...

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