NASA
-
NASA Raises Alarm, 3.1% Chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 Hitting Earth
After a week of bright skies due to the full moon, astronomers can finally observe asteroid 2024 YR4 again. With darker skies, ground-based telescopes have a better chance of spotting these faint space rocks that are usually hard to detect. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has…
-
Investigating The Fastest Planetary System
Astronomers might have just discovered the fastest planetary system ever seen! A tiny star, possibly with a super-Neptune planet tagging along, is zooming through the Milky Way at an insane speed—about 1.2 million mph (1.9 million km/h). If it’s moving fast enough, this star could eventually escape our galaxy, dragging its planetary companion into intergalactic…
-
Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has a Higher Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032
Astronomers just updated the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032, and the chances have gone up from 1.3% to 2.3%. But don’t worry—scientists are still optimistic that the risk will drop as they gather more data. This asteroid is pretty big, about 90 meters wide—around the same size as the one…