AbsolutelyLuis Batalha (@luismbat):In 2029, Apophis, a ~370m asteroid, will pass just ~31,000 km from Earth.That’s ~1/10 the distance to the Moon.Inside the orbit of geostationary satellites.Visible to the naked eye.Impact risk this time is low, but the flyby could shift its future trajectory.A direct hit https://t.co/r3tHhVq9cT ...

The streaking blaze of orange capturing the attention of eyewitnesses. >> WHOA. WHAT THE WAS THAT.>> NASA confirming hours later it was a small asteroid nearly 6 ft in diameter, weighing about 7 tons and moving at nearly 40,000 mph. Followed by sonic booms so powerful they rattled pets, cameras, and the overall sense of calm. >> Definitely not a gunshot.It sounds like more of an explosion. It's definitely too big for fireworks. ...

Tonight, meteoric levels of confusion in Cleveland after a loud boom rang through the region, frightening the pets in this person's backyard and stopping drivers in their tracks. >> WHOA, WHAT THE WAS THAT. >> THE fireball also spotted as far away as Pittsburgh, streaking through the sky.>> Anyone that's in Northeast Ohio, did you hear the loud boom. >> It sounded like a freaking bomb went off in the Cleveland area. NASA says it was a meteor fracturing into small pieces when an asteroid nearly 6 feet in dia ...

and NASA announcing they successfully knocked an asteroid off course using a spacecraft. It happened back in 2022, you may remember, but new research shows it marks the first time a human-made object has been able to alter objects orbit around the. ...

and NASA announcing they successfully knocked an asteroid off course using a spacecraft. It happened back in 2022, you may remember, but new research shows it marks the first time a human-made object has been able to alter objects orbit around the. ...

You know that 200 foot wide asteroid we've been telling you about that was like I don't want to say it was maybe going to hit Earth. There was like a tiny fraction of a chance it was it's not going to right. And NASA says the asteroid is not going to hit the moon either.So this is you know some good. ...

Let's go with breakthrough of the year. Freeberg, what's your breakthrough of the year. >> Okay, we haven't talked about it on the show.This definitely deserves a science corner, but asteroid Bennu, NASA sent a probe. They pulled a bunch of samples up in 2020. They landed back on Earth 2023.2 days ago, they showed that on asteroid Bennu, there is nucleic acids, there are amino acids, there are sugars. All of the building blocks of life were found on this asteroid floating through space. Wow.This is going to ...

A near-Earth asteroid the size of two football fields end-to-end is to have a relatively close encounter with Earth on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. https://t.co/u7lTDDNMcg https://t.co/wXUIJQVo0R ...