asteroid

Webb’s observations confirm a safe lunar passage for asteroid 2024 YR4

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Webb's observations confirm a safe lunar passage for asteroid 2024 YR4

by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2026 NASA used the James Webb Space Telescope to make new observations of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which confirms that it will pass safely by the Earth and the Moon in 2032. The asteroid had already been ruled out as a major threat to the Earth, … Read more

‘This was real’: Meet the woman who warns the world of an asteroid strike

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'This was real': Meet the woman who warns the world of an asteroid strike

The UN officer was trained for this moment. He was training and practicing on the tables in his offices in Vienna, sitting in a gray and unassuming 1970s concrete building near the Danube River. Aarti Holla-Maini, a British lawyer with a background in the satellite business, needed to at least play the situation step by … Read more