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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won’t Slam Into the Moon, According to NASA

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon in 2032! New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the object will pass safely at a distance of more than 20 000 ...

Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead

The rocket’s death came via a seemingly pedestrian notice posted on a government procurement website: “NASA/MSFC intends to ...

With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?

This is all well and good, but it neglects a critical element of the Artemis program: a lander capable of taking astronauts down to the lunar surface from an orbit around the Moon and back up to ...

A big asteroid won't hit the moon. Many scientists had wished it would.

The bad news: The miss means scientists won't get a rare natural experiment to collect data on a large asteroid strike. Telescopes and spacecraft could have otherwise watched the impact flash and ...
Interesting Engineering

NASA refines asteroid 2024 YR4 orbit, rules out collision with Moon in 2032

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid 2024 YR4 could collide with the Moon in 2032. New observations have helped researchers refine the space ...