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This “City-Killer” Asteroid Has a 4% Chance of Hitting the Moon
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
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Impact That Gave Us a Moon Could Explain Why Earth Now Has Life
How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...
An asteroid the size of a building could wreak havoc on the Moon, and now we’ve lost sight of it
A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 might smash into the moon
“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...
Chang'e-6 samples unlock secrets of the moon's farside
The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...
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In 2032, Earth May Witness A Once-In-5,000-Year Event On The Moon
"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...
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An ancient Earth impact could help in the search for Martian life
Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.
Youngest basaltic lunar meteorite fills nearly one billion-year gap in moon's volcanic history
A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...
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Expert explainer: Should you be worried about asteroid 2024 YR4?
Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.