While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early months of 2025. So far, debris from SpaceX and Blue Origin rockets has landed in locations including the Bahamas, Florida, Poland, and Turks and Caicos and caused flight delays at airports in Florida. On February 18, NASA estimated that asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032—the highest probability of impact ever recorded by the agency—although they later reduced that estimate to 0.004%. While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early months of 2025. So far, debris from SpaceX and Blue Origin rockets has landed in locations including the Bahamas, Florida, Poland, and Turks and Caicos and caused flight delays at airports in Florida. On February 18, NASA estimated that asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032—the highest probability of impact ever recorded by the agency—although they later reduced that estimate to 0.004%. Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
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