Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again.

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Scientists will debate in the coming weeks whether they will need to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

They're calling them "planetary embryos". Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between ...

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Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system ... Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have ...

Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth in 2032 ... "It's not surprising the percentage went up," Bruce Betts, an astronomer and ...