A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still ...

A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to ...

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...

US scientists primarily monitor sea ice using satellites from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), which detect Earth's microwave radiation. Because open water and sea ice emit ...

But the odds that it will instead crash into Earth's satellite have been steadily rising ... told New Scientist that a Moon hit would be "a great experiment and a perfect opportunity".

A “city killer” asteroid had a chance of striking Earth in 2032 is now expected ... a 96.2 per cent chance the asteroid will miss the satellite completely — if it were to make impact ...

Historical data is also used, like data collected in the 1970s and 1980s with the Nimbus-7 satellite. "It's not yet clear whether the Southern Hemisphere has entered a new norm with perennially ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Arctic sea ice reached its lowest peak in the 47-year satellite record, measuring 14.33 million km 2 on March 22, 2025. This decline is part of a long-term trend ...