Asteroid Impact News
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
New Scientist - 18-Feb-2025
More data may change the risk estimate, either increasing or decreasing it
Read more...Astronomers on alert as asteroid 2024 YR4 raises impact concerns
The Guardian - 30-Jan-2025
Scientists track a newly discovered space rock with a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2032
Read more...The UK's Spaceguard Centre is a key player in tracking near-Earth objects
BBC - 28-Jun-2020
Space objects aren't in lockdown so glad someone is still keeping any eye out for existential risks
Read more...Probes intended to intercept asteroids for planetary defence
SYFY Wire - 16-Apr-2020
Threat of asteroid collision is real - who wants to be wiped out like the dinosaurs?
Read more...Planning ahead to save Earth - moving big rocks out of Earth's pathway
Interesting Engineering - 30-Mar-2020
We humans definitely don't want to end up like Dinosaurs did!
Read more...Potentially devastating asteroid skims by Earth almost undetected
Independent - 20-Sep-2019
Have you got your go bag ready in case of an unexpected disaster?
Read more...NASA reveals large meteor explosion in December 2018
BBC - 18-Mar-2019
This would have caused damage over a populated city
Read more...Surprisingly difficult to blow up an asteroid
Sky News - 05-Mar-2019
Unless completely obliterated they tend to reform
Read more...Threefold increase in asteroid strikes over last 300m years
Guardian - 17-Jan-2019
Now every million years... do due one any day now!
Read more...NASA's DART planning first planetary defense impact
Space - 02-Jan-2019
We don't want to go the same way as the dinosaurs!
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