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Space & Cosmos

Do you remember an asteroid that doesn’t hit the Earth? We can send a mission to explore it

The artist’s impression of the asteroid. Credit: ESA-Science Office Last year, astronomers detected asteroids near Earth (NEA) 2024 YR4, which orbit the Sun every four years and regularly cross the Earth’s orbit. The nature of the orbit makes it a potentially dangerous object (PHO). This means that one day it could pose a collision risk to the Earth. Recently, refined…