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Asteroid threat assessment is the process astronomers use to decide how da

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How It Works Magazine

24 April, 2025

The Week UK

Rocks from heaven: defending the earth against asteroid strikes

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

BBC Science Focus Magazine

The planets that shouldn’t exist

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

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“right here, right now, we’ve got to use what we’ve got, no matter how imperfect”

Everyone who regularly reads this column knows that SMS text messages are not the recommended method of delivering two-factor authentication codes. There’s a good reason for that: in terms of security

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Asteroid 2024 yr4 could hit the moon in 2032

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently blazing towards the ...

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Ancient interstellar object detected

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a mysterious interstellar interloper spotted passing through our Solar System. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, was discovered by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Las