Crashes and launches abound in this set of astronomy history and news. Join Dr. Elaina Hyde and Sunna Withers for some crash landings on Venus, the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the Moon and Earth as well as a ‘near miss’ in the future as asteroid 2024 YR4 continues to get it’s orbital parameters refined.

Image credit: Venera 14 view of the surface of Venus: lava plates March 5, 1982. This image from the lander was processed by Ted Stryk. (Russian Academy of Sciences / Ted Stryk)