NASA tracking car-sized asteroid approaching Earth tomorrow

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

NASA warns of 15,000 city-killer asteroids near Earth

Imagine a rock the size of a football stadium hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, heading straight for a major city, and we have no way to stop it. NASA has just issued a sobering ...

NASA city-killer asteroids: Earth’s defence system not ready for thousands of killer space rocks

NASA scientists recently expressed alarm over the potential threat posed by approximately 15,000 undetected asteroids capable ...
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NASA scientist admits we can’t stop thousands of city-killer asteroids

NASA has cataloged only a fraction of the near-Earth asteroids large enough to destroy a major city, and the agency’s own data confirms that thousands of these objects remain invisible to current ...

Thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids threaten Earth... and Nasa can’t find them

Astronomers do not know where thousands of “city-killer” asteroids are, Nasa’s head of planetary defence has admitted.

Goddard wins two NASA Earth missions to help predict, reduce harm from environmental disasters

Two new satellite missions will help NASA scientists better understand Earth and improve the ability to foresee environmental ...
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UB scientists selected for NASA satellite mission to map Earth’s ice sheets and ecosystems

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) team was one of two teams selected out of four finalists for NASA’s Earth System ...

NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Tomorrow

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.