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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Set for High-Stakes Asteroid Encounter on Sunday
The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...
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The Asteroid That Was Predicted to Hit Earth: See It in a New Image
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured images of the asteroid with two cameras, including the Near-Infrared Camera and ...
NASA Tracking Car-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
JWST snaps first image of asteroid that threatened Earth
2024 YR4 may not make catastrophic history, but it did set a new record for the JWST as the smallest object ever targeted by ...
NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.
Asteroid 2024 YR4: Where do near-Earth asteroids come from – and what can we learn form them?
Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...
How would humanity respond if an asteroid headed for Earth? NASA answers
NASA is actively working on planetary defence against asteroids that could threaten Earth. Their new documentary highlights efforts being made.
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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NASA’s Webb captures first glimpse of asteroid once seen as earth’s biggest threat
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of an asteroid that was once ranked as the biggest threat ...
Webb Zooms In on Building-Sized Asteroid Once Feared to Hit Earth – And It’s Stranger Than Expected
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a close look at asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a potential ...
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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
The cosmic dream state you're in could include mind-bending thoughts about an impending asteroid impact on Earth. That's messy ... Coordination Office at NASA in January 2016.