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Why NASA keeps changing the probability of an asteroid impacting Earth in 2032

Cs news5 months ago016 mins

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid “2024 YR4” impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the probability of Earth impact to 2.8%, adding that for an asteroid of its size, it “now holds the record for the highest…

A Father-Daughter Duo Cracked an ‘Alien’ Code Sent From Space

Cs news9 months ago06 mins

In May of 2023, as part of a science-art project, the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter sent a signal to Earth as a simulated “alien message.” Although citizen scientists retrieved the signal from the raw data in only 10 days, it took longer than a year to actually decode the message. The father-daughter…