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NASA’s Asteroid Alert: 2024 YR4 – Deep Dive into Planetary Defense Now asteroid 2024 YR4 “Hey everyone, welcome back to Azeem_USA Blog! I’m Azeem, and today we’re diving deep into one of the most intriguing—and a little nerve-wracking—stories out there: NASA’s Asteroid Alert about 2024 YR4. We’re going to explore everything you need to know—from its discovery and its current risk ratings to what scientists are saying about deflection options and planetary defense strategies. What is 2024 YR4? “Imagine a space rock hurtling through our solar system—a rock so significant that, if it were to hit Earth, it could wipe out an entire city. That’s exactly what 2024 YR4 is all about. Discovered on December 27, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, 2024 YR4 is classified as a near-Earth object (NEO). It’s an Apollo-type asteroid, meaning its orbit crosses Earth’s path. Estimates put its diameter somewhere between 40 and 90 meters (or about 130 to 300 feet)....

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Successfully Returns, Concludes 8-Month Science Mission Safe Splashdown Concludes Mission In the early hours of Friday, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission safely splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, concluding an eight-month science expedition aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, touched down at 3:29 a.m. EDT, marking the end of NASA’s eighth commercial crew rotation mission to the ISS. Mission Milestones and Research Highlights Since launching on March 3 from Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Crew-8 achieved major scientific milestones, orbiting Earth 3,760 times and covering nearly 100 million miles. Key research included stem cell experiments to develop organoid models for degenerative disease studies, flammability tests on materials with varying fuel temperatures, and investigation...